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Differential equations are a powerful tool for evaluating Feynman integrals. Their solution is straightforward if a transformation to a canonical form is found. In this paper, we present an algorithm for finding such a transformation. This…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-06-24 Christoph Dlapa , Johannes Henn , Kai Yan

Two different Hamiltonian formulations of the metric gravity are discussed and applied to describe a free gravitational field in the $d$ dimensional Riemann space-time. Theory of canonical transformations, which relate equivalent…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-09-21 Alexei M. Frolov

There are many approaches for the description of dissipative systems coupled to some kind of environment. This environment can be described in different ways; only effective models will be considered here. In the Bateman model, the…

Classical Physics · Physics 2014-01-28 Dieter Schuch , Julio Guerrero , Francisco F. López-Ruiz , Victor Aldaya

It is shown that the action for Hamiltonian equations of motion can be brought into invariant symplectic form. In other words, it can be formulated directly in terms of the symplectic structure $\omega$ without any need to choose some…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-07-22 Alexey V. Golovnev , Alexander S. Ushakov

We propose a family of optimization methods that achieve linear convergence using first-order gradient information and constant step sizes on a class of convex functions much larger than the smooth and strongly convex ones. This larger…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-09-14 Chris J. Maddison , Daniel Paulin , Yee Whye Teh , Brendan O'Donoghue , Arnaud Doucet

The relaxation function is the cornerstone to perform calculations in weakly driven processes. Properties that such a function should obey are already established, but the difficulty in its calculation is still an issue to be overcome. In…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-07-11 Pierre Nazé

It is a long-standing challenge to accurately and efficiently compute thermodynamic quantities of many-body systems at thermal equilibrium. The conventional methods, e.g., Markov chain Monte Carlo, require many steps to equilibrate. The…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-12-10 Shuo-Hui Li , Yao-Wen Zhang , Ding Pan

In classical canonical correlation analysis (CCA), the goal is to determine the linear transformations of two random vectors into two new random variables that are most strongly correlated. Canonical variables are pairs of these new random…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-10-24 Tomasz Górecki , Mirosław Krzyśko , Felix Gnettner , Piotr Kokoszka

The Hamiltonian formulation plays the essential role in constructing the framework of modern physics. In this paper, a new form of canonical equations of Hamilton with the complete symmetry is obtained, which are valid not only for the…

Classical Physics · Physics 2012-12-11 Guo Liang , Qi Guo

We study the canonical variables based numerical schemes of a hybrid model with kinetic ions and mass-less electrons. Two equivalent formulations of the hybrid model are presented with the vector potentials in different gauges and the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-05-02 Yingzhe Li , Florian Holderied , Stefan Possanner , Eric Sonnendrücker

Hamilton's principle of stationary action lies at the foundation of theoretical physics and is applied in many other disciplines from pure mathematics to economics. Despite its utility, Hamilton's principle has a subtle pitfall that often…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-11 Chad R. Galley

A new procedure to diagonalize quadratic Hamiltonians is introduced. We show that one can find a unitary transformation such that the transformed quadratic Hamiltonian is diagonal but still written in terms of the original position and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-01-05 Ville J. Härkönen , Ivan A. Gonoskov

This work focuses on learning non-canonical Hamiltonian dynamics from data, where long-term predictions require the preservation of structure both in the learned model and in numerical schemes. Previous research focused on either facet,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Clémentine Courtès , Emmanuel Franck , Michael Kraus , Laurent Navoret , Léopold Trémant

A method of reducing general quaternion functions of first degree, i.e., linear quaternion functions, to quaternary canonical form is given. Linear quaternion functions, once reduced to canonical form, can be maintained in this form under…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Todd A. Ell

In recent years, differential equations have become the method of choice to compute multi-loop Feynman integrals. Whenever they can be cast into canonical form, their solution in terms of special functions is straightforward. Recently,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-08-28 Christoph Dlapa , Johannes M. Henn , Fabian J. Wagner

Ambiguities arising in different approaches (canonical, quasiclassical, path integration) to quantization are discussed by an example of the mechanics of a point-like particle in the Riemannian space (the geodesic dynamics). A way to select…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 E. A. Tagirov

Most elementary numerical schemes found useful for solving classical trajectory problems are {\it canonical transformations}. This fact should be make more widely known among teachers of computational physics and Hamiltonian mechanics. From…

Physics Education · Physics 2019-12-18 Siu A. Chin

In this paper we develop a fractional Hamiltonian formulation for dynamic systems defined in terms of fractional Caputo derivatives. Expressions for fractional canonical momenta and fractional canonical Hamiltonian are given, and a set of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Dumitru Baleanu , Om P. Agrawal

In their simplest formulations, classical dynamics is the study of Hamiltonian flows and quantum mechanics that of propagators. Both are linked, and emerge from the datum of a single classical concept, the Hamiltonian function. We study and…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-09-02 Maurice A. de Gosson

We show how to modify the canonical transformations to make them compatible with non-commutative Poisson brackets.

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-01-20 P. Valtancoli