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After reviewing the Lagrangian-Hamiltonian unified formalism (i.e, the Skinner-Rusk formalism) for higher-order (non-autonomous) dynamical systems, we state a unified geometrical version of the Variational Principles which allows us to…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-01-16 Pedro D. Prieto-Martínez , Narciso Román-Roy

The wave function in the quantum theory of the O(N) extended supersymmetric particle model describes a massless free field with spin N/2. This quantum theory is here exactly solved in terms of gauge fields in arbitrary even dimensions using…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-06-12 Robert Marnelius

We summarise the chain of comparisons showing Hinich's derived Maurer-Cartan functor gives an equivalence between differential graded Lie algebras and derived Schlessinger functors on Artinian differential graded-commutative algebras. We…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-08-08 J. P. Pridham

An interesting family of geometric integrators for Lagrangian systems can be defined using discretizations of the Hamilton's principle of critical action. This family of geometric integrators is called variational integrators. In this…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 Leonardo Colombo , David Martín de Diego , Marcela Zuccalli

Higher order derivatives of functions are structured high dimensional objects which lend themselves to many alternative representations, with the most popular being multi-index, matrix and tensor representations. The choice between them…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2021-12-01 José E. Chacón , Tarn Duong

We describe an infinite-parametric class of effective metric Lagrangians that arise from an underlying theory with two propagating degrees of freedom. The Lagrangians start with the Einstein-Hilbert term, continue with the standard R^2,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-04-21 Kirill Krasnov

We investigate an exactly solvable two-dimensional Lorentzian coupled quantum system that in a certain parameter regime can be transformed to a higher time derivative theory (HTDT) with preserved symplectic structure. By transforming the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-27 Andreas Fring , Takano Taira , Bethan Turner

Newtons second law, Schrodingers equation and Maxwells equations are all theories composed of at most second-time derivatives. Indeed, it is not often we need to take the time derivative of the acceleration. So why are we not seeing more…

Classical Physics · Physics 2022-11-29 Eleonora Svanberg

A notion of implicit difference equation on a Lie groupoid is introduced and an algorithm for extracting the integrable part (backward or/and forward) is formulated. As an application, we prove that discrete Lagrangian dynamics on a Lie…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-04-04 D. Iglesias , J. C. Marrero , D. Martin de Diego , E. Padron

The Pais-Uhlenbeck(PU) oscillator is the simplest model with higher time derivatives. Its properties were studied for a long time. In this paper, we extend the 4th order free PU oscillator to a more non-trivial case, dubbed the 4th order…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-03-13 H. Kuwabara , T. Yumibayashi , H. Harada

In this paper we analyze the oscillation of functions having derivatives in the H\"older or Zygmund class in terms of generalized differences and prove that its growth is governed by a version of the classical Kolmogorov's Law of the…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2023-10-25 Alejandro J. Castro , José G. Llorente , Artur Nicolau

Degenerate Higher Order Scalar Tensor (DHOST) theories are the most general scalar-tensor theories whose Lagrangian depends on the metric tensor and a single scalar field and its derivatives up to second order. They propagate only one…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-06 Andrei Lazanu

This thesis includes several original results. All of them are already published or submitted for publication. I present here the short summary of main results: The ultraviolet singular structure of the bulk-to-bulk propagators for higher…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-11-02 Karapet Mkrtchyan

This paper establishes an arithmetic intersection formula for central L-derivatives in higher weights.We prove that for a general cusp form (extending the previous result for newforms), the derivative is represented by the global height…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2026-03-18 Tuoping Du , Zhifeng Peng

The aim of this work is to study fiber derivatives associated to Lagrangian and Hamiltonian functions describing the dynamics of a higher-order autonomous dynamical system. More precisely, given a function in $T^*T^{(k-1)}Q$, we find…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2021-01-29 Leonardo Colombo , Pedro D. Prieto-Martínez

A non-topological Lorentz gauge model of gravity with torsion based on Gauss-Bonnet type Lagrangian is considered. The Lagrangian differs from the Lovelock term in four-dimensional space-time and has a number of interesting features. We…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-03-06 H. Niu , D. G. Pak

In this work we analyze systems described by Lagrangians with higher order derivatives in the context of the Hamilton-Jacobi formalism for first order actions. Two different approaches are studied here: the first one is analogous to the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-01-30 M. C. Bertin , B. M. Pimentel , P. J. Pompeia

We present a systematic construction of the six-derivative effective scalar-tensor theories, extending the four-derivative framework previously developed by Steven Weinberg. The on-shell effective field theory comprises five parity-even and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-16 Eugeny Babichev , Sukŗti Bansal , Maria Mylova , Antonio Padilla

We investigate the time evolution of Hagedorn wavepackets by non-Hermitian quadratic Hamiltonians. We state a direct connection between coherent states and Lagrangian frames. For the time evolution a multivariate polynomial recursion is…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-02-13 Caroline Lasser , Roman Schubert , Stephanie Troppmann

We study some complete orthonormal systems on the real-line. These systems are determined by Bargmann-type transforms, which are Fourier integral operators with complex-valued quadratic phase functions. Each system consists of…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2019-04-22 Hiroyuki Chihara