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We consider a generic diffusion on the 1D torus and give a simple representation formula for the large deviation rate functional of its invariant probability measure, in the limit of vanishing noise. Previously, this rate functional had…

Probability · Mathematics 2010-10-12 A. Faggionato , D. Gabrielli

The Lifshitz formula and methods of its preparation in the literature are considered. It is shown that in Lifshitz's work itself, this formula is given without a consistent conclusion. Moreover, the approach to the conclusion proposed in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-13 Michael V. Davidovich

Recently, we have demonstrated that there exists a possible relationship between q-deformed algebras in two different contexts of Statistical Mechanics, namely, the Tsallis' framework and the Kaniadakis' scenario, with a local form of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-03-18 José Weberszpil , José Abdalla Helayël-Neto

A new variational approach for general relativity and modified theories of gravity is presented. In addition to the metric tensor, two independent affine connections enter the action as dynamical variables. In the matter action the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-05 Nicola Tamanini

We prove Noether-type theorems for fractional isoperimetric variational problems with Riemann-Liouville derivatives. Both Lagrangian and Hamiltonian formulations are obtained. Illustrative examples, in the fractional context of the calculus…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-07-09 Gastao S. F. Frederico , Delfim F. M. Torres

This article develops dual variational formulations for a large class of models in variational optimization. The results are established through basic tools of functional analysis, convex analysis and duality theory. The main duality…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-10-04 Fabio Silva Botelho

We discuss diffusion of particles in a spatially inhomogeneous medium. From the microscopic viewpoint we consider independent particles randomly evolving on a lattice. We show that the reversibility condition has a discrete geometric…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-11-14 Daniele Andreucci , Emilio N. M. Cirillo , Matteo Colangeli , Davide Gabrielli

This article develops a variational formulation for the relativistic Klein-Gordon equation. The main results are obtained through an extension of the classical mechanics approach to a more general context, which in some sense, includes the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-10-17 Fabio Botelho

We formulate stochastic partial differential equations on Riemannian manifolds, moving surfaces, general evolving Riemannian manifolds (with appropriate assumptions) and Riemannian manifolds with random metrics, in the variational setting…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-08-30 C. M. Elliott , M. Hairer , M. R. Scott

We prove equality of analytic and topological $L^2$-torsion associated with an odd-dimensional finite volume hyperbolic manifold and a representation of the fundamental group which extends to the ambient Lie group. This generalizes a…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2020-12-02 Benjamin Waßermann

Based on the Newtonian mechanics, in this article, we present a heuristic derivation of the Friedmann equations, providing an intuitive foundation for these fundamental relations in cosmology. Additionally, using the first law of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-12-31 Jaume de Haro , Emilio Elizalde , Supriya Pan

We develop a recursive method for perturbative solutions of the Fokker-Planck equation with nonlinear drift. The series expansion of the time-dependent probability density in terms of powers of the coupling constant is obtained by solving a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-12-06 Jens Dreger , Axel Pelster , Bodo Hamprecht

We present variational and Hamiltonian formulations of incompressible fluid dynamics with free surface and nonvanishing odd viscosity. We show that within the variational principle the odd viscosity contribution corresponds to geometric…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-04-24 Alexander G. Abanov , Gustavo M. Monteiro

A mean-field-type limit from stochastic moderately interacting many-particle systems with singular Riesz potential is performed, leading to nonlocal porous-medium equations in the whole space. The nonlocality is given by the inverse of a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-09-20 Li Chen , Alexandra Holzinger , Ansgar Jüngel , Nicola Zamponi

A kinetic theory for relativistic gases in the presence of gravitational fields is developed in the second post-Newtonian approximation. The corresponding Boltzmann equation is determined from the evolution of the one-particle distribution…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-02-04 Gilberto M. Kremer

This text proposes geometrical descriptions of all variational problems invariant by conformal transformations in two variables. First a characterisation in terms of C-Finsler manifolds, a suitable generalization of Finsler manifolds, is…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Frederic Helein

We consider Lagrangians in Hamilton's principle defined on the tangent space $TG$ of a Lie group $G$. Invariance of such a Lagrangian under the action of $G$ leads to the symmetry-reduced Euler-Lagrange equations called the Euler-Poincar\'e…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2016-01-20 Darryl D. Holm

We investigate the invariant metrics and complex geodesics in the universal Teichm\"{u}ller space and Teichm\"{u}ller space of the punctured disk using Milin's coefficient inequalities. This technique allows us to establish that all…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2014-05-20 Samuel L. Krushkal

We develop a variational method for interacting surface systems with higher-form global symmetries. As a natural extension of the conventional second-quantized Hamiltonian of interacting bosons, we explicitly construct a second-quantized…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-02-10 Kiyoharu Kawana

The influence of the torsion on the relative velocity and on the relative acceleration between particles (points) in spaces with an affine connection and a metric [$(L_n,g)$-spaces] and in (pseudo) Riemannian spaces with torsion…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Manoff