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The Ruelle zeta-function of the geodesic flow on the sphere bundle $S(X)$ of an even-dimensional compact locally symmetric space $X$ of rank $1$ is a meromorphic function in the complex plane that satisfies a functional equation relating…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2016-09-06 Andreas Juhl

The gradient flow exact renormalization group (GFERG) is an exact renormalization group motivated by the Yang--Mills gradient flow and its salient feature is a manifest gauge invariance. We generalize this GFERG, originally formulated for…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-09-15 Yuki Miyakawa , Hiroshi Suzuki

If $(M,g)$ is a smooth compact rank $1$ Riemannian manifold without focal points, it is shown that the measure $\mu_{\max}$ of maximal entropy for the geodesic flow is unique. In this article, we study the statistic properties and prove…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2018-12-04 Fei Liu , Xiaokai Liu , Fang Wang

For every non-vanishing spinor field on a Riemannian spin seven-manifold, Crowley, Goette, and Nordstr\"om defined the so-called $\nu$-invariant. This is an integer modulo $48$ that detects connected components of the moduli space of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-02-09 Anna Fino , Gueo Grantcharov , Giovanni Russo

We introduce the discrete Einstein metrics as critical points of discrete energy on triangulated 3-manifolds, and study them by discrete curvature flow of second (fourth) order. We also study the convergence of the discrete curvature flow.…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-02-10 Huabin Ge , Xu Xu , Shijin Zhang

Phantom energy can be visualized as a scalar field with a (non-canonical) negative kinetic energy term. We use the dynamical system formalism to study the attractor behavior of a cosmological model containing a phantom scalar field $\phi$…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 L. Arturo Urena-Lopez

We associate a flow $\phi$ to a solution of the vortex equations on a closed oriented Riemannian 2-manifold $(M,g)$ of negative Euler characteristic and investigate its properties. We show that $\phi$ always admits a dominated splitting and…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-10-22 Thomas Mettler , Gabriel P. Paternain

We prove that the Gini coefficient of economic inequality is a Lyapunov functional for a class of nonlinear, nonlocal integro-differential equations arising at the intersection of mathematics, economics, and statistical physics. Next, a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-23 David W. Cohen

Unitary flows $T_t$ of dynamic origin are proposed such that for every countable subset $Q\subset (0,+\infty)$ the tensor product $\bigotimes_{q\in Q} T_q $ has simple spectrum. This property is generic for flows preserving the sigma-finite…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2022-05-17 Valery V. Ryzhikov

We consider a system of nonlinear spinor and scalar fields with minimal coupling in general relativity. The nonlinearity in the spinor field Lagrangian is given by an arbitrary function of the invariants generated from the bilinear spinor…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Bijan Saha , G. N. Shikin

We are interested in existence of gradient flows for shape functionals especially for first Laplacian eigenvalues. We introduce different techniques to prove existence and use different formulations for gradient flows. We apply a…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2020-03-04 Yannick Holle

Let $\Omega$ be a smooth bounded simply connected domain in $\mathbb{R}^2$. We investigate the existence of critical points of the energy $E_\varepsilon (u)=1/2\int_\Omega |\nabla u|^2+1/(4\varepsilon^2)\int_\Omega (1-|u|^2)^2$, where the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-10-29 Xavier Lamy , Petru Mironescu

We study the Ricci flow on Riemannian groupoids. We assume that these groupoids are closed and that the space of orbits is compact and connected. We prove the short time existence and uniqueness of the Ricci flow on these groupoids. We also…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-07-28 Christian Hilaire

The variational problem for the functional $F=\frac12\|\phi^*\omega\|_{L^2}^2$ is considered, where $\phi:(M,g)\to (N,\omega)$ maps a Riemannian manifold to a symplectic manifold. This functional arises in theoretical physics as the strong…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-11-12 J. M. Speight , M. Svensson

Real-time anomalous fermion number violation is investigated for massless chiral fermions in spherically symmetric SU(2) Yang-Mills gauge field backgrounds which can be weakly dissipative or even nondissipative. Restricting consideration to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 F. R. Klinkhamer , Y. J. Lee

The aim of this paper is to classify three dimensional compact Riemannian manifolds $(M^{3},g)$ that admits a non-constant solution to the equation $$-\Delta f g+Hess f-fRic=\mu Ric+\lambda g,$$ for some special constants $(\mu, \lambda)$,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-11-13 Adam da Silva , Halyson Baltazar

In the present paper, we prove a stability theorem for the Kaehler Ricci flow near the infimum of the functional E_1 under the assumption that the initial metric has Ricci > -1 and |Riem| bounded. At present stage, our main theorem still…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Xiuxiong Chen

A quantum stochastic differential equation (qsde) on Fock space over $L^2$ differential 1-forms is given from the small "time" flow of which the trace of the connection Laplacian heat kernel for the spinor endomorphism bundle can be…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-01-02 Sita Gakkhar , Matilde Marcolli

Let Phi : M --> g^* be a proper moment map associated to an action of a compact connected Lie group, G, on a connected symplectic manifold, (M,\omega). A collective function is a pullback via \Phi of a smooth function on g^*. In this paper…

dg-ga · Mathematics 2008-02-03 Eugene Lerman , Yael Karshon

Within the scope of a spherically symmetric space-time we study the role of a nonlinear spinor field in the formation of different configurations with spherical symmetries. The presence of the non-diagonal components of energy-momentum…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-12-31 Bijan Saha