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We present a detailed study of rotational asymmetry in galaxies for both morphological and physical diagnostic purposes. An unambiguous method for computing asymmetry is developed, robust for both distant and nearby galaxies. By degrading…

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When a group acts on a set, it naturally partitions it into orbits, giving rise to orbit problems. These are natural algorithmic problems, as symmetries are central in numerous questions and structures in physics, mathematics, computer…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Peter Bürgisser , Mahmut Levent Doğan , Visu Makam , Michael Walter , Avi Wigderson

The task of finding the smallest energy needed to bring a solid to its onset of mechanical instability arises in many problems in materials science, from the determination of the elasticity limit to the consistent assignment of free…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-05-03 Axel van de Walle , Sara Kadkhodaei , Ruoshi Sun , Qi-Jun Hong

The anisotropic 3D equation describing the pointlike particles diffusion in slender impermeable tubes of revolution with cross section smoothly depending on the longitudial coordinate is the object of our study. We use singular…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 Sergey D. Traytak

Several works have recently applied Jeans modelling to Gaia-based datasets to infer the circular velocity curve for the Milky Way. Such works have consistently found evidence for a continuous decline in the rotation curve beyond $\sim$15kpc…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-12-04 Orlin Koop , Teresa Antoja , Amina Helmi , Thomas M. Callingham , Chervin F. P. Laporte

We study the nonequilibrium dynamics of two particles confined in two spatially separated harmonic potentials and linearly coupled to the same thermally fluctuating scalar field, a cartoon for optically trapped colloids in contact with a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-10-12 Davide Venturelli , Andrea Gambassi

Topological entropy measures the number of distinguishable orbits in a dynamical system, thereby quantifying the complexity of chaotic dynamics. One approach to computing topological entropy in a two-dimensional space is to analyze the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-04-19 Eric Roberts , Suzanne Sindi , Spencer Smith , Kevin Mitchell

Analytical solutions to the chaotic and ergodic motion of a certain class of one-dimensional dissipative and discrete dynamical systems are derived. This allows us to obtain exact expressions for physical properties like the time…

chao-dyn · Physics 2009-10-30 D. Pingel , P. Schmelcher , F. K. Diakonos

It is known that B\"acklund transformations can be used to generate stationary axisymmetric solutions of Einstein's vacuum field equations with any number of constants. We will use this class of exact solutions to describe the exterior…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-09-12 C. Teichmüller , M. B. Fröb , F. Maucher

In order to find a law characterising the decrease of velocity along a jet, five analytical methods are suggested. The first two simple models examine the variation of velocity in the presence of Newton's or Stoke's resistance. The equation…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-09-20 Lorenzo Zaninetti

Analytic gravitational collapse and expansion solutions with anisotropic pressure are generated. Metric functions are found by requiring zero heat flow scalar. It emerges that a single function generates the anisotropic solutions. Each…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-09-30 E. N. Glass

The isothermal gas sphere is a particular type of Lane-Emden equation and is used widely to model many problems in astrophysics like stars, star clusters, and the formation of galaxies. In this paper, we present a computational scheme to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-03-31 Yosry A. Azzam , Emad A. -B. Abdel-Salam , Mohamed I. Nouh

We study the behavior of orbits in two different galactic dynamical models, describing the motion in the central parts of a triaxial elliptical galaxy with a dense nucleus. Numerical experiments show that both models display regular motion…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-04 Euaggelos E. Zotos

We present a novel numerical method to calculate periodic orbits for dynamical systems by an iterative process which is based directly on the action integral in classical mechanics. New solutions are obtained for the planar motion of three…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-07 Michael Nauenberg

Higher precision efficient computation of period 1 relaxation oscillations of strongly nonlinear and singularly perturbed Rayleigh equations with external periodic forcing is presented. The computations are performed in the context of…

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Several short-chain fatty acids and their corresponding potential existing hydrated forms are important molecules in interstellar space. Their structures were optimized with twelve different computational methods. The dipole moments and the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-09 Fangjing Mu , Hao Wang , Zhanhang He , Qian Gou , Yuchao Zhang , Donghui Wei

We present exact, explicit, convergent periodic-orbit expansions for individual energy levels of regular quantum graphs. One simple application is the energy levels of a particle in a piecewise constant potential. Since the classical ray…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 R. Blümel , Y. Dabaghian , R. V. Jensen

We identify an effective proxy for the analytically-unknown second integral of motion (I_2) for rotating barred or tri-axial potentials. Planar orbits of a given energy follow a tight sequence in the space of the time-averaged angular…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-06-01 Yu-Jing Qin , Juntai Shen

An eikonal expansion is developed in order to provide systematic corrections to the eikonal approximation through order 1/k^2, where k is the wave number. The expansion is applied to wave functions for the Klein-Gordon equation and for the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2011-07-19 J. A. Tjon , S. J. Wallace

We develop a novel approach to performing precision inference on tidally perturbed dwarf galaxies. We use a Bayesian inference framework of implicit likelihood inference, previously applied mainly in the field of cosmology, based on forward…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-04-11 Axel Widmark , Kathryn V. Johnston