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A recurrent theme in functional analysis is the interplay between the theory of positive definite functions, and their reproducing kernels, on the one hand, and Gaussian stochastic processes, on the other. This central theme is motivated by…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2012-08-15 Daniel Alpay , Palle Jorgensen

We propose a generating functional for nonrelativistic gauge invariant actions. In particular, we consider actions without the usual magnetic term. Like in the Born-Infeld theory, there is an upper bound to the electric field strength in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-02-25 Oleg Andreev

We study the response of generating functionals to a variation of parameters (couplings) in equilibrium systems i.e. in quantum field theory (QFT) and equilibrium statistical mechanics. These parameters can be either physical ones such as…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-09-20 Kiyoharu Kawana

In a mathematical context in which one can multiply distributions the "`formal"' nonperturbative canonical Hamiltonian formalism in Quantum Field Theory makes sense mathematically, which can be understood a priori from the fact the so…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-01-12 J. Aragona , P. Catuogno , J. F. Colombeau , S. O. Juriaans , C. Olivera

Constrained symplectic quantization is a functional formulation of quantum field theory in which quantum fluctuations are sampled through a deterministic Hamiltonian flow in an auxiliary intrinsic time $\tau$. In this paper we extend the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-27 Francesco Scardino , Martina Giachello , Giacomo Gradenigo

We introduce a novel, systematic method for the complete symbolic reduction of multi-loop Feynman integrals, leveraging the power of generating functions. The differential equations governing these generating functions naturally yield…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-01-30 Bo Feng , Xiang Li , Yuanche Liu , Yan-Qing Ma , Yang Zhang

A model for quantum tunnelling of a cluster comprising A identical particles, coupled by oscillator-type potential, through short-range repulsive potential barriers is introduced for the first time in the new symmetrized-coordinate…

We give a formal treatment of the "Correlated Worldline" theory of quantum gravity. The generating functional is written as a product over multiple copies of the coupled matter and gravitational fields; paths for fields are correlated via…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-03-24 A. O. Barvinsky , J. Wilson-Gerow , P. C. E. Stamp

The joint probability distribution function (PDF) of the density within multiple concentric spherical cells is considered. It is shown how its cumulant generating function can be obtained at tree order in perturbation theory as the Legendre…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-19 Francis Bernardeau , Christophe Pichon , Sandrine Codis

Context. In previous work, we developed a quasi-Gaussian approximation for the likelihood of correlation functions, which, in contrast to the usual Gaussian approach, incorporates fundamental mathematical constraints on correlation…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-21 Philipp Wilking , Randolf Röseler , Peter Schneider

Developing explicit pseudorandom generators (PRGs) for prominent categories of Boolean functions is a key focus in computational complexity theory. In this paper, we investigate the PRGs against the functions of degree-$d$ polynomial…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Penghui Yao , Mingnan Zhao

Generating functions, which are widely used in combinatorics and probability theory, encode function values into the coefficients of a polynomial. In this paper, we explore their use as a tractable probabilistic model, and propose…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Honghua Zhang , Brendan Juba , Guy Van den Broeck

We recast the action principle of four dimensional General Relativity so that it becomes amenable for perturbation theory which doesn't break general covariance. The coupling constant becomes dimensionless (G_{Newton} \Lambda) and extremely…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Laurent Freidel , Artem Starodubtsev

Spin foams arose as the covariant (path integral) formulation of quantum gravity depicting transition amplitudes between different quantum geometry states. As such, they provide a scheme to study the no boundary proposal, specifically the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-07-30 Joseph Bunao , Pietropaolo Frisoni , Athanasios Kogios , Jared Wogan

Two algorithms are proposed to simulate space-time Gaussian random fields with a covariance function belonging to an extended Gneiting class, the definition of which depends on a completely monotone function associated with the spatial…

Computation · Statistics 2019-12-05 Denis Allard , Xavier Emery , Céline Lacaux , Christian Lantuéjoul

In this introductory article a brief description of Quantum Field Theories (QFT) is presented with emphasis on the distinction between strongly and weakly coupled theories. A case is made for using numerical simulations to solve QCD, the…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2007-05-23 Rajan Gupta

To estimate cosmological parameters from a given dataset, we need to construct a likelihood function, which sometimes has a complicated functional form. We introduce the copula, a mathematical tool to construct an arbitrary multivariate…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-25 Masanori Sato , Kiyotomo Ichiki , Tsutomu T. Takeuchi

In a cosmological setting, particle production is ubiquitous. It may occur as a consequence of the expansion of the background or because a field couples to other degrees of freedom that evolve with time. The process is well understood in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-02-25 Evgueni Alexeev , Raphael Flauger

We develop a reformulation of the functional integral for bosons in terms of bilocal fields. Correlation functions correspond to quantum probabilities instead of probability amplitudes. Discrete and continuous global symmetries can be…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-04-14 S. Floerchinger

In this paper we develop an operational formulation of General Relativity similar in spirit to existing operational formulations of Quantum Theory. To do this we introduce an operational space (or op-space) built out of scalar fields. A…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-26 Lucien Hardy