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We describe symmetry structure of a general singular theory (theory with constraints in the Hamiltonian formulation), and, in particular, we relate the structure of gauge transformations with the constraint structure. We show that any…

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We present new alternative complete asymptotic expansions for the time harmonic low--frequency magnetic field perturbation caused by the presence of a conducting permeable object as its size tends to zero for the eddy current approximation…

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In this paper, it is shown why Lorentz Transformation implies the general case where observed events are not necessarily in the inertia frame of any observer but assumes a special scenario when determining the length contraction and time…

General Physics · Physics 2012-09-24 Ibrahim M. Alabdulmohsin

The FOCUS constraint expresses the notion that solutions are concentrated. In practice, this constraint suffers from the rigidity of its semantics. To tackle this issue, we propose three generalizations of the FOCUS constraint. We provide…

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This paper establishes a global contraction property for networks of phase-coupled oscillators characterized by a monotone coupling function. The contraction measure is a total variation distance. The contraction property determines the…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2012-10-01 Alexandre Mauroy , Rodolphe Sepulchre

To describe the slow dynamics of a system out of equilibrium, but close to a dynamical arrest, we generalize the ideas of previous work to the case where time-translational invariance is broken. We introduce a model of the dynamics that is…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2016-08-31 P. De Gregorio , F. Sciortino , P. Tartaglia , E. Zaccarelli , K. A. Dawson

Abductive explanations (AXp's) are widely used for understanding decisions of classifiers. Existing definitions are suitable when features are independent. However, we show that ignoring constraints when they exist between features may lead…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-09-19 Martin Cooper , Leila Amgoud

We introduce the concept of a control contraction metric, extending contraction analysis to constructive nonlinear control design. We derive sufficient conditions for exponential stabilizability of all trajectories of a nonlinear control…

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We prove that a planar graph is generically rigid in the plane if and only if it can be embedded as a pseudo-triangulation. This generalizes the main result of math.CO/0307347 which treats the minimally generically rigid case. The proof…

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We present a generalized reduction procedure which encompasses the one based on the momentum map and the projection method. By using the duality between manifolds and ring of functions defined on them, we have cast our procedure in an…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-22 J. Grabowski , G. Landi , G. Marmo , G. Vilasi

Adding transitions to an equilibrium system increases the activity. Naively, one would expect this to hold also in out of equilibrium systems. This surprising effect is caused by adding heretofore forbidden transitions into less and less…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-01-01 Eial Teomy , Yair Shokef

In [Evans, Francis 2022; Hendel] the authors investigated resistance distance in triangular grid graphs and observed several types of asymptotic behavior. This paper extends their work by studying the initial, non-asymptotic, behavior found…

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We present data-based conditions for enforcing contractivity via feedback control and obtain desired asymptotic properties of the closed-loop system. We focus on unknown nonlinear control systems whose vector fields are expressible via a…

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We prove that Riemannian contraction in a supervised learning setting implies generalization. Specifically, we show that if an optimizer is contracting in some Riemannian metric with rate $\lambda > 0$, it is uniformly algorithmically…

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For a general class of cones in $\mathbb{R}^3$, we construct self-expanders of positive genus asymptotic to these cones. As a result, we use these self-expanders to construct a mean curvature flow with genus strictly decreasing but not to…

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Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-03 Farid Shahandeh

It is often of interest to know which systems will approach a periodic trajectory when given a periodic input. Results are available for certain classes of systems, such as contracting systems, showing that they always entrain to periodic…

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Both the coherent states and also the squeezed states of the harmonic oscillator have long been understood from the three classical points of view: the 1) displacement operator, 2) annihilation- (or ladder-) operator, and…

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The generalized divided differences are introduced. They are applied to investigate some properties characterizing generalized higher-order convexity. Among others some support-type property is proved.

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We study gravitational clustering of mass points in three dimensions with random initial positions and periodic boundary conditions (no expansion) by numerical simulations. Correlation properties are well defined in the system and a sort of…

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