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The formation energy of a solid surface can be extracted from slab calculations if the bulk energy per atom is known. It has been pointed out previously that the resulting surface energy will diverge with slab thickness if the bulk energy…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-10-28 V. Fiorentini , M. Methfessel

We study critical surfaces for a surface energy which contains the squared $L^2$ norm of the difference of the mean curvature $H$ and the spontaneous curvature $c_o$, coupled to the elastic energy of the boundary curve. We investigate the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-02-24 Bennett Palmer , Alvaro Pampano

Carpet-type structures constitute an ideal laboratory to study and analyze the robustness of the interference process that underlies this phenomenon against the harmful effects of decoherence. Here, without losing any generality, for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-06-14 E. Honrubia , A. S. Sanz

This work formulates and gives grounds for general principles and theorems that question the energy function doctrine and its quantum version as a genuine law of nature without borders of adequacy. The emphasis is on the domain where the…

General Physics · Physics 2011-09-23 V. E. Shapiro

We explain how to derive largeness constraints in scalar curvature geometry using some basic splitting results and the potential theory on singular area minimizing hypersurfaces. This includes a variety of results like the non-existence of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-01-01 Joachim Lohkamp

In this note we show how to construct a number of nonconvex quadratic inequalities for a variety of physics equations appearing in physical design problems. These nonconvex quadratic inequalities can then be used to construct bounds on…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-26 Guillermo Angeris

Dark energy is the candidate that can produce effective negative pressure and make the galaxies and galaxy clusters move away from each other in an accelerated way. The structures of the Universe have evolved from some initial primordial…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-07 Srijita Sinha

These are intended to be review notes on emergent symmetries, i.e., symmetries which manifest themselves in specific sectors of energy in many systems. The emphasis is on the physical aspects rather than computation methods. We include some…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-03-17 Pedro R. S. Gomes

Positivity bounds - constraints on any low-energy effective field theory imposed by the fundamental axioms of unitarity, causality and locality in the UV - have recently been used to constrain scalar-tensor theories of dark energy. However,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-08 Claudia de Rham , Scott Melville , Johannes Noller

We formulate a geometric framework in which physical laws emerge from restricted access to microscopic information. Measurement constraints are modeled as a gauge symmetry acting on density operators, inducing a gauge-reduced space of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-19 Tiago Pernambuco , Lucas Chibebe Céleri

Context. The external regions of galaxy clusters may be under strong influence of the dark energy, discovered by observations of the SN Ia at redshift z < 1. Aims. The presence of the dark energy in the gravitational equilibrium equation,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-09-05 Marco Merafina , Gennady S. Bisnovatyi-Kogan , Martina Donnari

The purpose of this paper is finding the essential attributes underlying the convexity theorems for momentum maps. It is shown that they are of topological nature; more specifically, we show that convexity follows if the map is open onto…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Petre Birtea , Juan-Pablo Ortega , Tudor S. Ratiu

Modern astronomical observations in cosmology provide increasingly strong evidence that the expansion of the Universe is accelerating. Explanations of the cosmic acceleration within the framework of general relativity use the hypothesis…

General Physics · Physics 2015-04-10 I. K. Rozgacheva , A. A. Agapov

A novel method for deriving energy conditions in stable field theories is described. In a local classical theory with one spatial dimension, a local energy condition always exists. For a relativistic field theory, one obtains the dominant…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-07-26 Aron C. Wall

In this study we try to answer the qustion : What happens when explicit constraints are introduced such that the low energy, long wavelength modes of a system are unavailable ? This question has assumed some importance in recent years due…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 Abhishek Chaudhuri

The present work revisits the classical Wulff problem restricted to crystalline integrands, a class of surface energies that gives rise to finitely faceted crystals. The general proof of the Wulff theorem was given by J.E. Taylor (1978) by…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-02-26 Thaicia Stona de Almeida

Convex geometries are closure systems satisfying the anti-exchange axiom. Every finite convex geometry can be embedded into a convex geometry of finitely many points in an n-dimensional space equipped with a convex hull operator, by the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-09-02 Kira Adaricheva , Madina Bolat

Vacuum energies are computed in light-cone field theories to obtain effective potentials which determine vacuum condensate. Quantization surfaces interpolating between the light-like surface and the usual spatial one are useful to define…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-07-19 Shin-ichi Kojima , Norisuke Sakai , Tadakatsu Sakai

In this thesis we study energy forms. These are quadratic forms on the space of real-valued measurable $m$-a.e. determined functions $$E:L^0(m) \to [0,\infty],$$ which assign to a measurable function $f$ its energy $E(f)$. Their two…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2017-03-16 Marcel Schmidt

We propose gravity, matters and dark energy may be confined on different four dimensional \emph{minimal surfaces} for the observer in five dimensional spacetime. Following this idea, we construct the equations of motion when gravity,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-10-30 Changjun Gao , Shuang Yu