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This paper presents a rigorous treatment of the concept of extensivity in equilibrium thermodynamics from a geometric point of view. This is achieved by endowing the manifold of equilibrium states of a system with a smooth atlas that is…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-03-05 Miguel Ángel García-Ariza

The Nelson stochastic mechanics of inhomogeneous quantum diffusion in flat spacetime with a tensor of diffusion can be described as a homogeneous one in a Riemannian manifold where this tensor of diffusion plays the role of a metric tensor.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-10-09 Zahid Zakir

A new Riemannian geometry for the Compound Gaussian distribution is proposed. In particular, the Fisher information metric is obtained, along with corresponding geodesics and distance function. This new geometry is applied on a change…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-05-21 Florent Bouchard , Ammar Mian , Jialun Zhou , Salem Said , Guillaume Ginolhac , Yannick Berthoumieu

Diffusion models have demonstrated remarkable empirical success in the recent years and are considered one of the state-of-the-art generative models in modern AI. These models consist of a forward process, which gradually diffuses the data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Xingyu Xu , Ziyi Zhang , Yorie Nakahira , Guannan Qu , Yuejie Chi

The purpose of this paper is to provide equations to model the evolution of effective diffusion over a Riemannian fiber bundle (under the hypothesis of infinite diffusion rate along compact fibers). These equations are obtained by…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-02-24 Carlos Valero Valdes

Information geometry provides differential geometric concepts like a Riemannian metric, connections and covariant derivatives on spaces of probability distributions. We discuss here how these concepts apply to quantum field theories in the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-04-11 Stefan Floerchinger

The propagation of light in a scattering medium is described as the motion of a special kind of a Brownian particle on which the fluctuating forces act only perpendicular to its velocity. This enforces strictly and dynamically the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-10-31 S. Anantha Ramakrishna , N. Kumar

Continuous image morphing is a classical task in image processing. The metamorphosis model proposed by Trouv\'e, Younes and coworkers casts this problem in the frame of Riemannian geometry and geodesic paths between images. The associated…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-03-27 Alexander Effland , Sebastian Neumayer , Martin Rumpf

We are interested in comparing probability distributions defined on Riemannian manifold. The traditional approach to study a distribution relies on locating its mean point and finding the dispersion about that point. On a general manifold…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2008-07-22 Nikolay H. Balov

The Markovian diffusion theory in the phase space is generalized within the framework of the general theory of relativity. The introduction of moving orthonormal frame vectors both for the position as well the velocity space enables to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-20 Joachim Herrmann

We study light propagation in a photonic system that shows stepwise evolution in a discretized environment. It resembles a discrete-time version of photonic waveguide arrays or quantum walks. By introducing controlled photon losses to our…

We consider the effect on the propagation of light of inhomogeneities with sizes of order 10 Mpc or larger. The Universe is approximated through a variation of the Swiss-cheese model. The spherical inhomogeneities are void-like, with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-02-17 Nikolaos Brouzakis , Nikolaos Tetradis , Eleftheria Tzavara

Gravitational optical properties are here investigated under the hypothesis of spherically-symmetric spacetimes behaving as media. To do so, we first consider two different definitions of the refractive index, $n_O$, of a spacetime medium…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-12 Orlando Luongo

We introduce MxDiffusion, a hybrid physics- and data-driven diffusion-based framework that enables efficient and highly accurate generation of photonic structures from target optical properties. The improved accuracy is achieved through a…

Optics · Physics 2026-02-20 Sujoy Mondal , Taehyuk Park , Sudipta Biswas , Alan X. Wang , Wenshan Cai

We develop a new approach to building cosmological models, in which small pieces of perturbed Minkowski space are joined together at reflection-symmetric boundaries in order to form a global, dynamical space-time. Each piece of this…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-04-12 Viraj A. A. Sanghai , Timothy Clifton

The following questions are germane to our understanding of gauge-(in)variant quantities and physical possibility: how are gauge transformations and spacetime diffeomorphisms understood as symmetries, in which ways are they similar, and in…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2022-10-28 Henrique Gomes

We derive an asymptotic solution of the vacuum Einstein equations that describes the propagation and diffraction of a localized, large-amplitude, rapidly-varying gravitational wave. We compare and contrast the resulting theory of strongly…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Giuseppe Ali , John K. Hunter

We present a new form of Quantum Electrodynamics where the photons are composites made out of zero-dimensional scalar ``primitives''. The r\^{o}le of the local gauge symmetry is taken over by an {\em infinite-dimensional global Noether…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-28 E. I. Guendelman , E. Nissimov , S. Pacheva

The problem of finding null geodesics in a stationary Lorentzian spacetime is known to to be equivalent to finding the geodsics of a Randers-Finlser structure. This latter problem is equivalent to finding the motion of charged particles…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-08-10 G. W. Gibbons

A complete recipe of measure-preserving diffusions in Euclidean space was recently derived unifying several MCMC algorithms into a single framework. In this paper, we develop a geometric theory that improves and generalises this…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-05-07 Alessandro Barp , So Takao , Michael Betancourt , Alexis Arnaudon , Mark Girolami