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This paper argues that the physics of condensed matter cannot be fully reduced to the supposedly fundamental quantum mechanical theory for all the atoms of which the system consists. In fact, there are many reasons to reject the idea that…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2019-09-04 Barbara Drossel

A particular science is not only defined by its object of study, but also by the point of view and method under which it considers that same object. Taking space and time as an illustrative example, our main aim here is to bring out an…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2012-05-09 Mauricio Mondragon , Luis Lopez

Artists spent a great deal of time studying anatomy for precise rendering of the human body as well as light, shadows, and perspective for convincing representation of the three-dimensional world. But in many paintings, they also had to…

Popular Physics · Physics 2022-10-31 R. Krechetnikov

It is argued that the occurrence of disproportionately ("un-natural") large (or small) numbers, as well as deep cancellations, are comparatively natural traits of the way Nature is geared to operate in most complex systems. The idea is…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2018-12-07 Sauro Succi

Network or graph structures are ubiquitous in the study of complex systems. Often, we are interested in complexity trends of these system as it evolves under some dynamic. An example might be looking at the complexity of a food web as…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-01-23 Russell K. Standish

Soft interfaces can mediate interactions between particles bound to them. The force transmitted through the surface geometry on a particle may be expressed as a closed line integral of the surface stress tensor around that particle. This…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Martin Michael Mueller , Markus Deserno , Jemal Guven

We describe a natural decomposition of a normal complex surface singularity $(X,0)$ into its "thick" and "thin" parts. The former is essentially metrically conical, while the latter shrinks rapidly in thickness as it approaches the origin.…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2014-07-29 Lev Birbrair , Walter D Neumann , Anne Pichon

Random graphs have proven to be one of the most important and fruitful concepts in modern Combinatorics and Theoretical Computer Science. Besides being a fascinating study subject for their own sake, they serve as essential instruments in…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Michael Krivelevich , Benny Sudakov

This paper is devoted to the construction of order reduced method of fourth order problems. A framework is presented such that a problem on a high-regularity space can be deduced in a constructive way to an equivalent problem on three…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-11-02 Shuo Zhang

The reader surely knows what particles physics is about: finding building blocks of nature that appear elementary at a given time and study their interactions - so why in the world this essay? The problem is how to arrive at a fundamental…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-04-21 Goran Senjanović

This essay advocates the view that any problem that has a meaningful empirical content, can be formulated in constructive, more definitely, finite terms. We consider combinatorial models of dynamical systems and approaches to statistical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-07-21 Vladimir V. Kornyak

Mathematical research is often motivated by the desire to reach a beautiful result or to prove it in an elegant way. Mathematician's work is thus strongly influenced by his aesthetic judgments. However, the criteria these judgments are…

History and Overview · Mathematics 2024-05-10 Filip D. Jevtić , Jovana Kostić , Katarina Maksimović

Chiral active matter, which breaks both parity symmetry and time-reversal symmetry, is ubiquitous in living systems. Here, we introduce a minimal two-dimensional chiral active lattice gas by incorporating stochastic, biased local rotations.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-03-23 Boyi Wang , Patrick Pietzonka , Frank Jülicher

Recent advances in visual representation learning allowed to build an abundance of powerful off-the-shelf features that are ready-to-use for numerous downstream tasks. This work aims to assess how well these features preserve information…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-21 Monika Wysoczańska , Tom Monnier , Tomasz Trzciński , David Picard

It is well-known that biological phenomena are emergent. Emergent phenomena are quite interesting and amazing. However, they are difficult to be understood. Due to this difficulty, we propose a theory to describe emergence based on a…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2018-10-30 Giuliano Gadioli La Guardia , Pedro Jeferson Miranda

Group theory involves the study of symmetry, and its inherent beauty gives it the potential to be one of the most accessible and enjoyable areas of mathematics, for students and non-mathematicians alike. Unfortunately, many students never…

History and Overview · Mathematics 2024-03-01 Matthew Macauley

A graph theoretic approach is proposed for object shape representation in a hierarchical compositional architecture called Compositional Hierarchy of Parts (CHOP). In the proposed approach, vocabulary learning is performed using a hybrid…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-01-26 Umit Rusen Aktas , Mete Ozay , Ales Leonardis , Jeremy L. Wyatt

We are often interested in decomposing complex, structured data into simple components that explain the data. The linear version of this problem is well-studied as dictionary learning and factor analysis. In this work, we propose a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-29 Avrim Blum , Kavya Ravichandran

The noncommutativity concept has wide range of applications in physical and mathematical theories. Noncommutativity in the position-time coordinates concerns the microscale structure of space-time. the noncommutativity is an intrinsic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-10-24 Behrooz Malekolkalami , Taimur Mohammadi

In the last decade it became apparent that a large number of the most interesting structures and phenomena of the world can be described by networks: separable elements, with connections (or interactions) between certain pairs of them.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2009-02-03 Laszlo Lovasz