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We derive and establish a solution concept for the linear mountain wave problem in two dimensions. After linearizing the governing equations and a change of variables, the problem can be stated as a Dirichlet boundary value problem for a…

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We formulate the field-space geometry for an effective field theory of scalars and gauge bosons. Geometric invariants such as the field-space curvature enter in both scattering amplitudes and the renormalization group equations, with the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-03-21 Andreas Helset , Elizabeth E. Jenkins , Aneesh V. Manohar

The elastic properties of a material are encoded in a stiffness tensor field and the propagation of elastic waves is modeled by the elastic wave equation. We characterize analytic and algebraic properties a general anisotropic stiffness…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-11-21 Joonas Ilmavirta , Pieti Kirkkopelto , Antti Kykkänen

A general relativistic description of a disk rotating at constant angular velocity is given. It is argued that conceptually this direct approach poses fewer problems than the special relativistic one. For observers on the disk, the geometry…

Popular Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 Klaus Kassner

The dynamics of a gravitational wave propagating through a cosmic gauge field are dramatically different than in vacuum. We show that a gravitational wave acquires an effective mass, is birefringent, and its normal modes are a linear…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-11-22 R. R. Caldwell , C. Devulder , N. A. Maksimova

In this paper we explore the geometric structures associated with curvature radii of curves with values on a Riemannian manifold $(M, g)$. We show the existence of sub-Riemannian manifolds naturally associated with the curvature radii and…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-07-15 Eugenio Bellini

The standard analytical approach for studying gravity free-surface waves generated by a moving body often relies upon a linearization of the physical geometry, where the body is considered asymptotically small in one or several of its…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-09-28 Philippe H. Trinh

Finsler geometry naturally appears in the description of various physical systems. In this review I divide the emergence of Finsler geometry in physics into three categories: as dual description of dispersion relations, as most general…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-11-01 Christian Pfeifer

We study the presence of resonances in the region of space around the Earth. We consider a massless body (e.g, a dust particle or a small space debris) subject to different forces: the gravitational attraction of the geopotential, the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-02-19 Alessandra Celletti , Catalin Gales , Christoph Lhotka

The ``geometry'', in the sense of the classical differential geometry of smooth manifolds (CDG), is put under scrutiny from the point of view of Abstract Differential Geometry (ADG), along with resulting, thereby, potential physical…

General Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Anastasios Mallios

Using exact solutions, we show that it is in principle possible to regard waves and particles as representations of the same underlying geometry, thereby resolving the problem of wave-particle duality.

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Paul S. Wesson

It is shown that space-time may be not only in a state which is described by Riemann geometry but also in states which are described by Finsler geometry. Transitions between various metric states of space-time have the meaning of phase…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 G. Yu. Bogoslovsky , H. F. Goenner

Gravity theories that can be viewed as dynamics for area metric manifolds, for which Brans-Dicke theory presents a recently studied example, require for their physical interpretation the identification of the distinguished curves that serve…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-05-29 Raffaele Punzi , Frederic P. Schuller , Mattias N. R. Wohlfarth

Robotics research has found numerous important applications of Riemannian geometry. Despite that, the concept remain challenging to many roboticists because the background material is complex and strikingly foreign. Beyond {\em Riemannian}…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-07-05 Nathan D. Ratliff , Karl Van Wyk , Mandy Xie , Anqi Li , Muhammad Asif Rana

The Riemannian geometry is one of the main theoretical pieces in Modern Mathematics and Physics. The study of Riemann Geometry in the relevant literature is performed by using a well defined analytical path. Usually it starts from the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-07-07 Juan Mendez

The aim of this paper is to develop on the 1-jet space J^1(R,M^3) the Finsler-like geometry (in the sense of distinguished (d-) connection, d-torsions and d-curvatures) of the rheonomic Berwald-Moor metric of order three. Some natural…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-10-05 Gheorghe Atanasiu , Mircea Neagu

The space-time of modern physics is tailored on light. We rigorously construct the basic entities needed by kinematics: geometry of the physical space and time, using as tool electromagnetic waves, and particularly light-rays. After such a…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2015-12-15 Zoltan Neda

We study gravitational waves with torsion as exact vacuum solutions of three-dimensional gravity with propagating torsion. The new solutions are a natural generalization of the plane-fronted gravitational waves in general relativity with a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-09-16 M. Blagojević , B. Cvetković

Perceptual geometry refers to the interdisciplinary research whose objectives focuses on study of geometry from the perspective of visual perception, and in turn, applies such geometric findings to the ecological study of vision. Perceptual…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2011-11-29 Arash Sangari , Hasti Mirkia , Amir H. Assadi

With the aid of a Fermi-Walker chart associated with an orthonormal frame attached to a time-like curve in spacetime, a discussion is given of relativistic balance laws that may be used to construct models of massive particles with spin,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Robin W. Tucker