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It is shown how continuous products of random transformations constrained by a generic group structure can be studied by using Iwasawa's decomposition into ``angular'', ``diagonal'' and ``shear'' degrees of freedom. In the case of a…
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The description of shock waves beyond the shock point is a challenge in nonlinear physics. Finding solutions to the global dynamics of dispersive shock waves is not always possible due to the lack of integrability. Here we propose a new…
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We introduce the concept of {\it generalized reducibility}, which provides a flexible framework for analyzing the long-time behavior of solutions to quadratic quantum Hamiltonians. As an application of this notion, for many prescribed…
It is demonstrated that almost any S-matrix of quantum field theory in curved spaces posses an infinite set of complex poles (or branch cuts). These poles can be transformed into complex eigenvalues, the corresponding eigenvectors being…
We analytically compute the time evolution of an initial infinite plane wave in the presence of a 1-dimensional square quantum barrier. This calculation generalizes the analysis of the shutter problem and sets the basis for the calculation…
We study the deviations from the exponential decay law, both in quantum field theory (QFT) and quantum mechanics (QM), for an unstable particle which can decay in (at least) two decay channels. After a review of general properties of…
Wave functions of bounded quantum systems with time-independent potentials, being almost periodic functions, cannot have time asymptotics as in classical chaos. However, bounded quantum systems with time-dependent interactions, as used in…
In this paper we consider energy decay estimates for the Cauchy problems of dissipative wave equations with time dependent coefficients, in particular, the coefficients consisting of weak dissipation and very fast oscillating terms. For…
In this note, we analyze an abstract evolution equation with time-dependent time delay and time-dependent delay feedback coefficient. We assume that the operator corresponding to the nondelayed part of the model generates an exponentially…
We establish the decay of the solutions of the damped wave equations in one dimensional space for the Dirichlet, Neumann, and dynamic boundary conditions where the damping coefficient is a function of space and time. The analysis is based…
The evolution equations of Einstein's theory and of Maxwell's theory---the latter used as a simple model to illustrate the former--- are written in gauge covariant first order symmetric hyperbolic form with only physically natural…
We consider a biological population evolving under the joint action of selection, mutation and random genetic drift. The evolutionary dynamics are described by a one-dimensional Fokker-Planck equation whose eigenfunctions obey a confluent…
In this paper, we study well-posedness and exponential stability for semilinear second order evolution equations with memory and time-varying delay feedback. The time delay function is assumed to be continuous and bounded. Under a suitable…
An exponentially decaying system looks as if its decay was a generalized power or double-exponential law, provided one takes into account the relativistic time dilation in a detector, the delay of the emitted signal, and the accelerations…
The concept of weak invariants has recently been introduced in the context of conserved quantities in finite-time processes in nonequilibrium quantum thermodynamics. A weak invariant itself has a time-dependent spectrum, but its expectation…
Regardless of a system's complexity or scale, its growth can be considered to be a spontaneous thermodynamic response to a local convergence of down-gradient material flows. Here it is shown how growth can be constrained to a few distinct…