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We argue that Anton Zeilinger's "foundational conceptual principle" for quantum mechanics according to which an elementary system carries one bit of information is an idealistic principle, which should be replaced by a realistic principle…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-29 Frederique Laurent , Francois-Igor Pris

We generalize the de Broglie-Bohm (dBB) formulation of quantum mechanics to the case of quantum gravity (QG) by using the effective action for a QG theory. This is done by replacing the dBB equations of motion with the effective action…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-05 Aleksandar Mikovic

The principle of least action, a fundamental principle in variational mechanics with broad applicability to classical physical systems, is employed to formulate a novel attrition model for combat dynamics. This formulation extends the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-12-18 Wei Liang , Han Hu , Lijie Sun , Pingxing Chen , Ming Zhong

The analytic physics, when it is development from aprioristic form, constructs all the laws from the Hamilton principle, also called action principle. According to this principle all systems are characterized by a magnitude called action…

General Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Enrique Ordaz Romay

The traditional formulation of the ultimate goal of physics (in the narrower sense of axiomatic theory) involves the derivation of physical laws from first principles. Though, such option doesn't make things easier since the task of the…

General Physics · Physics 2020-05-11 Yu. L. Bolotin , A. V. Tur , V. V. Yanovsky

This short note is intended to review the foundations of mechanics, trying to present them with the greatest mathematical and conceptual clarity. It was attempted to remove most of inessential, even parasitic issues, which can hide the true…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-04-07 Ricardo J. Alonso-Blanco , Jesús Muñoz-Díaz

After the development of a self-consistent quantum formalism nearly a century ago there began a quest for how to interpret the theoretical constructs of the formalism. In fact, the pursuit of new interpretations of quantum mechanics…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2018-01-22 Stephen Boughn

The higher derivative gravitational theories exhibit new phenomena absent in General Relativity. One of them is the possible formation of the so called double layer which is the pure gravitational phenomenon and can be interpreted, in a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-03-20 Victor Berezin , Vyacheslav Dokuchaev , Yury Eroshenko , Alexei Smirnov

A system of two initially homogeneous, physically real fields uniformly attracted to each other is considered as the simplest basis of the self-developing world structure. It is shown that the system is unstable against periodic cycles of…

General Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Andrei P. Kirilyuk

We present certain mathematical aspects of an information method which was formulated in an attempt to investigate diffusion phenomena. We imagine a regular dynamical hamiltonian systems under the random perturbation of thermal (molecular)…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Qiuping A. Wang , Wei Li

GUP is a phenomenological model aimed for a description of a minimal length in quantum and classical systems. However, the analysis of problems in classical physics is usually approached preferring a different formalism than the one used…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-06-27 Pasquale Bosso

A goal of physics is to understand the greatest possible breadth of natural phenomena in terms of the most economical set of basic concepts. However, as the understanding of physics has developed historically, its pedagogy and language have…

General Physics · Physics 2020-10-21 B. C. Regan

Recently it is shown that the non-relativistic quantum formulations can be derived from a least observability principle [36]. In this paper, we apply the principle to massive scalar fields, and derive the Schr\"{o}dinger equation of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-16 Jianhao M. Yang

In this article we show in some detail how the full action functional of the standard model of elementary particle physics can be described within the geometrical setting of generalized Dirac operators. We thereby introduce a new model…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 Juergen Tolksdorf

Recent works have explored relations between classical and quantum statistical physics on the one hand and Voiculescu's theory of free probability on the other. Motivated by these results, the present work focuses on the notion of effective…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-09-24 Kurusch Ebrahimi-Fard , Frederic Patras

The derivation of the recently proposed nonlinear quantum evolution of gravity from an action principle is considered in this brief note. It is shown to be possible if a set of consistency conditions are satisfied that are analogous to the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Charles Wang

The action principle is used to derive, by an entirely algebraic approach, gauge transformations of the full vacuum-to-vacuum transition amplitude (generating functional) from the Coulomb gauge to arbitrary covariant gauges and in turn to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Edouard B. Manoukian , Suppiya Siranan

The formalism of classical particle dynamics is reinvestigated according to the basic requirement of causal consistency, and a new equation of particle dynamics, which is more general and more in line with classical mechanics experiments…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-03 ChiYi Chen

Through the analyses of volume-forms in differentiable manifolds, it is shown that the usual way of defining minimal action principles for field theory on curved space-times is not appropriate on non-riemannian manifolds. An alternative…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-22 A. Saa

This novel approach to the foundation of the physical theory begins with Hermann von Helmholtz fundamental analysis of basic measurements. We explain the mathematical formalism from the operationalization of basic observables. According to…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2015-12-04 Bruno Hartmann