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We provide a functional characterization of isometries between non-reversible Finsler manifolds, in the form of a generalization of the Myers-Nakai Theorem for Riemannian manifolds. We show that, since non-reversible Finsler manifolds are a…

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Nonlinear waves in defocusing media are investigated in the framework of the hydrodynamic description of light as a photon fluid. The observations are interpreted in terms of an emergent curved spacetime generated by the waves themselves,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-12-07 Francesco Marino , Calum Maitland , David Vocke , Antonello Ortolan , Daniele Faccio

We study a correspondence between gravitational shockwave geometry and its fluid description near a Rindler horizon in Minkowski spacetime. Utilizing the Petrov classification that describes algebraic symmetries for Lorentzian spaces, we…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-07-29 Sang-Eon Bak , Cynthia Keeler , Yiwen Zhang , Kathryn M. Zurek

A fluid constituted of hard spherocylinders is studied using a density functional theory for non-spherical hard particles, which can be written as a function of weighted densities. This is based on an extended deconvolution of the Mayer…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-18 René Wittmann , Klaus Mecke

Anisotropy of a space naturally leads to direction dependent electromagnetic tensors and electromagnetic potentials. Starting from this idea and using variational approaches and exterior derivative formalism, we extend some of the classical…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Nicoleta Voicu-Brinzei , Sergey Siparov

We consider a linearized inverse scattering problem for elastic waves. We prove that a fully anisotropic perturbation of the elastic parameters around an isotropic and homogeneous reference can be uniquely determined by (single-)scattered…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-01 Matti Lassas , Shiqi Ma , Lauri Oksanen , Mikko Salo , Jian Zhai

It is known that there exist solutions with interfaces to various scalar nonlinear wave equations. In this paper, we look for solutions of a two-component system of nonlinear wave equations where one of the components has an interface and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-01-12 Kyle Thompson

Spinorial formalism is used to map every electromagnetic wave into the gravitational wave (within the linearized gravity). In this way we can obtain the gravitational counterparts of Bessel, Laguerre-Gauss, and other light beams carrying…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-02-17 Iwo Bialynicki-Birula , Zofia Bialynicka-Birula

To make progress towards the development of a theory on the motion of inclusions in thin structured films and membranes, we here consider as an initial step a circular disk in a two-dimensional, uniaxially anisotropic fluid layer. We assume…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-09-02 Abdallah Daddi-Moussa-Ider , Elsen Tjhung , Thomas Richter , Andreas M. Menzel

A continuum mechanical theory with foundations in generalized Finsler geometry describes the complex anisotropic behavior of skin. A fiber bundle approach, encompassing total spaces with assigned linear and nonlinear connections,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-08-09 John D. Clayton

We present a rigorous generalization of the classical Ginzburg--Landau model to smooth, compact Finsler manifolds without boundary. This framework provides a natural analytic setting for describing anisotropic superconductivity within…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-12-31 Y. Alipour Fakhri

We explore a connection between the Finslerian area functional and well-investigated Cartan functionals to prove new Bernstein theorems, uniqueness and removability results for Finsler-minimal graphs, as well as enclosure theorems and…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-04-02 Patrick Overath , Heiko von der Mosel

Oceanic internal tides and other inertia-gravity waves propagate in an energetic turbulent flow whose lengthscales are similar to the wavelengths. Advection and refraction by this flow cause the scattering of the waves, redistributing their…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2018-11-14 Miles A. C. Savva , Jacques Vanneste

In this paper, we consider the evolution of spacelike graphic hypersurfaces defined over a convex piece of hyperbolic plane $\mathscr{H}^{n}(1)$, of center at origin and radius $1$, in the $(n+1)$-dimensional Lorentz-Minkowski space…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-06-14 Ya Gao , Jing Mao

The statistical-mechanical study of the equilibrium properties of fluids, starting from the knowledge of the interparticle interaction potential, is essential to understand the role that microscopic interaction between individual particles…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-10-07 Ana M. Montero

Friedel oscillations of the graphene-like materials are investigated theoretically beyond the Dirac point-approximation. Numerical calculations have been performed within the random phase approximation (RPA). For intra-valley transitions it…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-02-08 T. Farajollahpour , S. Khamouei , S. Safari Shateri , A. Phirouznia

We examine the singularities of the wave fronts of null geodesics from point sources in the Kerr Metric. We find that the wave fronts develop a tube like structure that collapses non-symmetrically, leading to cusp features in the wave front…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-03-05 Thomas Kling , Eric Grotzke , Kevin Roebuck , Harry Waite

We study underlying geometric structures for integral variational functionals, depending on submanifolds of a given manifold. Applications include (first order) variational functionals of Finsler and areal geometries with integrand the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-07-04 Erico Tanaka , Demeter Krupka

Quantum Monte Carlo simulations of interacting electrons in solids often use Slater-Jastrow trial wave functions. The Jastrow function takes into account correlations between pairs of electrons. In simulations of solids, it is common to use…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Garcia-Lekue , M. Nekovee , J. M. Pitarke , R. Gaudoin

We propose a time-domain boundary integral method to model linear wave propagation with refractive, focusing, and Doppler effects arising from medium heterogeneities and moving obstacles. In contrast to existing techniques, our method…

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