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The spectral flow is a classical notion of functional analysis and differential geometry which was given different interpretations as Fredholm index, Witten index, and Maslov index. The classical theory treats spectral flow outside the…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2015-02-03 Nurulla Azamov

A search for fundamental (Galilean invariant) dynamical equations for two and four-component spinor wave functions is conducted in Galilean space-time. A dynamical equation is considered as fundamental if it is invariant under the symmetry…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2012-01-16 R. Huegele , Z. E. Musielak , J. L. Fry

Two equations are constructed which reflect, for fermions moving independently in a spherical harmonic potential, a differential virial theorem and a relation between the turning points of kinetic energy and particle densities. These…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 A. Minguzzi , N. H. March , M. P. Tosi

Travelling waves of densities of binary fluid mixtures are investigated near a critical point. The free energy is considered in a non-local form taking account of the density gradients. The equations of motions are applied to a universal…

Classical Physics · Physics 2011-10-26 Henri Gouin , Augusto Muracchini , Tommaso Ruggeri

The J-flow of S. K. Donaldson and X. X. Chen is a parabolic flow on Kahler manifolds with two Kahler metrics. It is the gradient flow of the J-functional which appears in Chen's formula for the Mabuchi energy. We find a positivity condition…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-01-12 Jian Song , Ben Weinkove

We study the streamlines of $\infty$-harmonic functions in planar convex rings. We include convex polygons. The points where streamlines can meet are characterized: they lie on certain curves. The gradient has constant norm along…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-06-30 Erik Lindgren , Peter Lindqvist

A flow of metrics, $g_t$, on a manifold is a solution of a differential equation $\dt g = S(g)$, where a geometric functional $S(g)$ is a symmetric $(0,2)$-tensor usually related to some kind of curvature. The mixed sectional curvature of a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-11-28 Vladimir Rovenski , Vladimir Sharafutdinov

The critical behavior of the chiral quark-meson model is studied within the Functional Renormalization Group (FRG). We derive the flow equation for the scale dependent thermodynamic potential at finite temperature and density in the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-18 B. Stokic , B. Friman , K. Redlich

We show that an orientable 3-dimensional manifold M admits a complete riemannian metric of bounded geometry and uniformly pos- itive scalar curvature if and only if there exists a finite collection F of spherical space-forms such that M is…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-11-11 Laurent Bessières , Gérard Besson , Sylvain Maillot

We give a functional analytical proof of the equality between the Maslov index of a semi-Riemannian geodesic and the spectral flow of the path of self-adjoint Fredholm operators obtained from the index form. This fact, together with recent…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Paolo Piccione , Alessandro Portaluri , Daniel V. Tausk

We analyze the long-time behavior of solutions to semilinear parabolic equations in Euclidean space that arise as gradient flows of an energy functional. We prove that, for general initial data (including data without compact support) the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-03 Daniel Restrepo

Flagpole and flag-dipole spinors are particular classes of spinor fields that has been recently used in different branches of theoretical physics. In this paper, we study the possibility and consequences of these spinor fields to induce an…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-03-02 Roldao da Rocha , R. T. Cavalcanti

Let $(M,\textit{g},\sigma)$ be a compact Riemannian spin manifold of dimension $m\geq2$, let $\mathbb{S}(M)$ denote the spinor bundle on $M$, and let $D$ be the Atiyah-Singer Dirac operator acting on spinors $\psi:M\to\mathbb{S}(M)$. We…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-01-13 Thomas Bartsch , Tian Xu

We generalise the theory of energy functionals used in the study of gradient systems to the case where the domain of definition of the functional cannot be embedded into the Hilbert space $H$ on which the associated operator acts, such as…

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We define a one-particle irreducible (1PI) Wilson action in the gradient flow exact renormalization group (GFERG) formalism as the Legendre transform of a Wilson action. We consider quantum electrodynamics in particular, and show that the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-04-04 Hidenori Sonoda , Hiroshi Suzuki

Scattering amplitudes are often split up into their color (su(N)) and kinematic components. Since the su(N) gauge part can be described using flows of color, one may anticipate that the double su(2) kinematic part can be described in terms…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-04-27 Joakim Alnefjord , Andrew Lifson , Christian Reuschle , Malin Sjodahl

The spectrum of collective excitations of degenerate partially polarized spin-1/2 fermions is considered. The spin-up fermions and the spin-down fermions are considered as different fluids. Corresponding two-fluid hydrodynamics consistent…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2018-01-23 Pavel A. Andreev

In our previous paper math.DG/0010008, we develop some new techniques in attacking the convergence problems for the K\"ahler Ricci flow. The one of main ideas is to find a set of new functionals on curvature tensors such that the Ricci flow…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-11-07 X. X. Chen , G. Tian

We calculate the finite temperature single hole spectral function and the spin dynamic structure factor of spinfull one-dimensional Tomonaga-Luttinger liquid. Analytical expressions are obtained for a number of special cases. We also…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-10-31 D. Orgad