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We study a class of oscillating bounce solutions to the Euclidean field equations for gravity coupled to a scalar field theory with two, possibly degenerate, vacua. In these solutions the scalar field crosses the top of the potential…

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We address the question of minimal requirements for the existence of quantum bound states. In particular, we demonstrate that a few-body system with zero-range momentum-independent two-body interactions is unstable against decay into…

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We prove by example that the number of elastic collisions of $n$ balls of equal mass and equal size in $d$-dimensional space can be greater than $n^3/27$ for $n\geq 3$ and $d\geq 2$. The previously known lower bound was of order $n^2$.

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2019-03-27 Krzysztof Burdzy , Mauricio Duarte

The nature of the transition from quantum tunneling at low temperatures to thermal hopping at high temperatures is investigated in a scalar field theory with cubic symmetry breaking. The bounce solution which interpolates between the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 Hatem Widyan , A. Mukherjee , N. Panchapakesan , R. P. Saxena

Three- and four-neutron systems are studied within the framework of the hyperspherical approach with a local S-wave nn-potential. Possible bound and resonant states of these systems are sought as zeros of three- and four-body Jost functions…

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A lower bound for the ground state energy of a one particle relativistic Hamiltonian - sometimes called no-pair operator - is provided.

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-30 C. Tix

Exact vacuum expectation values of the third level descendent fields $<(\partial\phi)^3({\bar\partial}\phi)^3e^{a\phi}>$ in the Bullough-Dodd model are proposed. By performing quantum group restrictions, we obtain $<L_{-3}{\bar…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 P. Baseilhac , M. Stanishkov

One-loop effective potential of scalar-tensor gravity with a quartic scalar field self-interaction is evaluated up to first post-Minkowskian order. The potential develops an instability in the strong field regime which is expected from an…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-06-01 A. Arbuzov , B. Latosh , A. Nikitenko

In this article, we derived a rigorous lower bound on the ground-state energy for a class of one-dimensional quantum systems in deformed space with minimal coordinate and momentum uncertainties, representing the absolute minimum energy that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-05 Arsen Panas , Volodymyr Tkachuk

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The bouncing cosmology provides a successful solution of the cosmological singularity problem. In this paper, we study the bouncing behavior of a single scalar field model with tachyon field non-minimally coupled to itself, its derivative…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-03 A. Banijamali , B. Fazlpour

We prove a lower bound for the modulus of the amplitude for a two-body process at large scattering angle. This is based on the interplay of the analyticity of the amplitude and the positivity properties of its absorptive part. The…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-07-03 Henri Epstein , André Martin

We investigate the orbit space of the scalar potential of a $\Delta(54)$-symmetric three-Higgs-doublet model. We find that, if the potential enjoys $CP$ invariance, then its three-dimensional orbit space is a polytope; if the potential has…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-11 Darius Jurčiukonis , Luís Lavoura

The vacuum expectation value of the square of the field fluctuations of a scalar field on a background consisting of {\it two} de Sitter branes embedded in an anti-de Sitter bulk are considered. We apply a dimensional reduction to obtain an…

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We consider the quantisation of scalar fields on a Lifshitz background, exploring the possibility of alternative boundary conditions, allowing the slow falloff mode to fluctuate. We show that the scalar field with alternative boundary…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-12 Tomas Andrade , Simon F. Ross

Consider a one dimensional quantum mechanical particle described by the Schroedinger equation on a closed curve of length $2\pi$. Assume that the potential is given by the square of the curve's curvature. We show that in this case the…

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We discuss the generic slowing down of quantum dynamics in low energy density states of spatially local Hamiltonians. Beginning with quantum walks of a single particle, we prove that for certain classes of Hamiltonians (deformations of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-04-01 Andrew Osborne , Chao Yin , Andrew Lucas

Recently, we had numerically shown that, for a non-minimal coupling that is a simple power of the scale factor, scale invariant magnetic fields arise in a class of bouncing universes. In this work, we {\it analytically} evaluate the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-10-19 Debika Chowdhury , L. Sriramkumar , Rajeev Kumar Jain

Sometimes a local minimum is known to be a metastable vacuum inside the low-energy EFT, but the true vacuum lies outside, and the bounce solution mediating the decay cannot be found. For single-field decay, Espinosa has proposed a family of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-06-12 Mehrdad Mirbabayi , Giovanni Villadoro

Consider $N$ bosons in a finite box $\Lambda= [0,L]^3\subset \mathbf R^3$ interacting via a two-body smooth repulsive short range potential. We construct a variational state which gives the following upper bound on the ground state energy…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-10-05 Horng-Tzer Yau , Jun Yin