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This paper is an overview of the idea of using contact geometry to construct invariants of immersions and embeddings. In particular, it discusses how to associate a contact manifold to any manifold and a Legendrian submanifold to an…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Tobias Ekholm , John B. Etnyre

The purposes of the present paper are two-fold. Firstly we further develop the interplay between the contact Hamiltonian geometry and the geometric analysis of Hamiltonian-perturbed contact instantons with the Legendrian boundary condition,…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2024-10-02 Yong-Geun Oh

A diathermal wall between two heat baths at different temperatures can be mimicked by a layer of independent spin pairs with some internal energy and where each spin $\sigma_a$ is flipped by thermostat $a$ ($a=1,2$). The transition rates…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-06 Françoise Cornu , Michel Bauer

We analyze the equilibrium space of an ideal gas using the formalism of geometrothermodynamics. We introduce the concept of thermodynamic geodesics to show that the equilibrium space around a particular initial state can be divided into two…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-10-11 Hernando Quevedo

Consider a homogenous fluid membrane, or vesicle, described by the Helfrich-Canham energy, quadratic in the mean curvature. When the membrane is axially symmetric, this energy can be viewed as an `action' describing the motion of a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 Riccardo Capovilla , Jemal Guven , Efrain Rojas

Our previous study [1] has demonstrated that the gauge theory is a proper framework for characterizing the local temporal and spatial interactions in inhomogeneous elastic media. However, in that study temporal interactions were interpreted…

Classical Physics · Physics 2025-06-10 Zhihai Xiang

We elaborate on existing notions of contact geometry and Poisson geometry as applied to the classical ideal gas. Specifically we observe that it is possible to describe its dynamics using a 3-dimensional contact submanifold of the standard…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-04-04 P. Fernandez de Cordoba , J. M. Isidro

This paper deals with the large-time analysis of a PDE system modelling contact with adhesion, in the case when thermal effects are taken into account. The phenomenon of adhesive contact is described in terms of phase transitions for a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-09-15 Elena Bonetti , Giovanna Bonfanti , Riccarda Rossi

Models with radiative symmetry breaking typically feature strongly supercooled first-order phase transitions, which result in an observable stochastic gravitational wave background. In this work, we analyse the role of higher order thermal…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-03-15 Maciej Kierkla , Bogumila Swiezewska , Tuomas V. I. Tenkanen , Jorinde van de Vis

We present the development of the approach to thermodynamics based on measurement. First of all, we recall that considering classical thermodynamics as a theory of measurement of extensive variables one gets the description of thermodynamic…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2021-01-22 Valentin Lychagin , Mikhail Roop

We construct a novel approach, based on thermodynamic geometry, to characterize first-order phase transitions from a microscopic perspective, through the scalar curvature in the equilibrium thermodynamic state space. Our method resolves key…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-05-30 George Ruppeiner , Anurag Sahay , Tapobrata Sarkar , Gautam Sengupta

Using the quantum Hamiltonian for a gravitational system with boundary, we find the partition function and derive the resulting thermodynamics. The Hamiltonian is the boundary term required by functional differentiability of the action for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 Seth A. Major , Kevin L. Setter

We generalise the theories of cosymplectic, contact, and cocontact manifolds to the infinite-dimensional setting and calculate model examples of time-dependent and dissipative Hamiltonian systems.

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-12-18 Fraser Aidan Kelvin Sanders

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

We develop a geometric formulation of thermodynamic response in the classical Ising model by defining a curvature field over the control manifold spanned by inverse temperature $\beta$ and magnetic field $h$. We show that the existence of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-04-30 Eric R. Bittner

A universal algorithm to derive a macroscopic dynamics from the microscopic dynamical system via the averaging process and symplecto-contact reduction was introduced by Jin-wook Lim and the second-named author in [LO23]. They apply the…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-04-24 Hyun-Seok Do , Yong-Geun Oh

We investigate the relationship between ground-state (zero-temperature) quantum phase transitions in systems with variable Hamiltonian parameters and classical (temperature-driven) phase transitions in standard thermodynamics. An analogy is…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 Pavel Cejnar , Stefan Heinze , Jan Dobes

In modern science, the thermo mechanics motion can be traced back to quantum motion in micro viewpoint. On the other hand, the thermo mechanics is definitely related with geometrical configuration motion (phase) in macro viewpoint. On this…

General Physics · Physics 2010-04-27 Xiao Jianhua

Riemannian and contact geometry formalisms are used to study the fundamental equation of electromagnetic radiation-like systems, obeying a Stefan-Boltzmann's-like law. The vanishing of metric determinant is used for classifying what kind of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-06-03 Victor Alcides Guzmán Rodríguez

We address the problem of computing the thermodynamic properties of the repulsive one-dimensional two-component Fermi gas with contact interaction, also known as the Gaudin-Yang model. Using a specific lattice embedding and the quantum…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2016-03-23 Ovidiu I. Patu , Andreas Klumper
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