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In this paper, we analyze the variation of the gravitational action on a bounded region of spacetime whose boundary contains segments with various characters, including null. We develop a systematic approach to decompose the derivative of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-12-26 Sajad Aghapour , Ghadir Jafari , Mehdi Golshani

The Weak-form Sparse Identification of Nonlinear Dynamics algorithm (WSINDy) has been demonstrated to offer coarse-graining capabilities in the context of interacting particle systems (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physd.2022.133406). In this…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-12-04 Daniel A. Messenger , Joshua W. Burby , David M. Bortz

Two very basic constructions involving experimental procedures are the formation of coarse-grained versions of experiments, and the formation of branching sequential experiments. The latter allow for the conditioning of states on the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-14 Alex Wilce

We study coarse-graining methods for stochastic differential equations. In particular we consider averaging and a type of projection operator method, sometimes referred to as effective dynamic via conditional expectations. The projection…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-06-19 Manh Hong Duong , Carsten Hartmann , Michela Ottobre

A machine-learnable variational scheme using Gaussian radial basis functions (GRBFs) is presented and used to approximate linear problems on bounded and unbounded domains. In contrast to standard mesh-free methods, which use GRBFs to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-10-10 Jonas A. Actor , Anthony Gruber , Eric C. Cyr , Nathaniel Trask

We formulate the flow of thick fluids as evolution variational and quasi-variational inequalities, with a variable threshold on the absolute value of the deformation rate tensor. In the variational case, we show the existence and uniqueness…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-01-22 Jos\é Francisco Rodrigues , Lisa Santos

In this paper, we consider a generalization of variational calculus which allows us to consider in the same framework different cases of mechanical systems, for instance, Lagrangian mechanics, Hamiltonian mechanics, systems subjected to…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-11-13 Viviana Alejandra Díaz , David Martín de Diego

Multiscale molecular modeling is widely applied in scientific research of molecular properties over large time and length scales. Two specific challenges are commonly present in multiscale modeling, provided that information between the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-07-23 Jun Zhang , Xiaohan Lin , Weinan E , Yi Qin Gao

We propose an adaptive refinement algorithm to solve total variation regularized measure optimization problems. The method iteratively constructs dyadic partitions of the unit cube based on i) the resolution of discretized dual problems and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-01-19 Axel Flinth , Frédéric de Gournay , Pierre Weiss

Recently, there has been a surge of interest in incorporating neural networks into particle filters, e.g. differentiable particle filters, to perform joint sequential state estimation and model learning for non-linear non-Gaussian…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Xiongjie Chen , Yunpeng Li

This work develops a nonlinear multigrid method for diffusion problems discretized by cell-centered finite volume methods on general unstructured grids. The multigrid hierarchy is constructed algebraically using aggregation of degrees of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-10-29 Chak Shing Lee , François Hamon , Nicola Castelletto , Panayot S. Vassilevski , Joshua White

The combination of high-dimensionality and disparity of time scales encountered in many problems in computational physics has motivated the development of coarse-grained (CG) models. In this paper, we advocate the paradigm of data-driven…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-03-05 L. Felsberger , P. S. Koutsourelakis

A detailed theoretical and numerical investigation of the infinitesimal single-crystal gradient plasticity and grain-boundary theory of Gurtin (2008) "A theory of grain boundaries that accounts automatically for grain misorientation and…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-08 D. Gottschalk , A. McBride , B. D. Reddy , A. Javili , P. Wriggers , C. B. Hirschberger

A variational principle is developed for fractional kinetics based on the auxiliary-field formalism. It is applied to the Fokker-Planck equation with spatio-temporal fractionality, and a variational solution is obtained with the help of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-16 Sumiyoshi Abe

We introduce a general framework for deriving effective dynamics from arbitrary time-dependent generators, based on a systematic operator cumulant expansion. Unlike traditional approaches, which typically assume periodic or adiabatic…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-10-02 Leon Bello , Tal Rubin , Wentao Fan , Nathaniel Fisch , Hakan Türeci

We study a continuous-time dynamical system which arises as the limit of a broad class of nonlinearly preconditioned gradient methods. Under mild assumptions, we establish existence of global solutions and derive Lyapunov-based convergence…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-20 Konstantinos Oikonomidis , Alexander Bodard , Jan Quan , Panagiotis Patrinos

We present numerical solutions to the extended Doering-Constantin variational principle for upper bounds on the energy dissipation rate in plane Couette flow, bridging the entire range from low to asymptotically high Reynolds numbers. Our…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 Rolf Nicodemus , Siegfried Grossmann , Martin Holthaus

Dust grains play a significant role in several astrophysical processes, including gas/dust dynamics, chemical reactions, and radiative transfer. Replenishment of small-grain populations is mainly governed by fragmentation during pair-wise…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-27 Maxime Lombart , Charles-Edouard Bréhier , Mark Hutchison , Yueh-Ning Lee

A simple criterion to optimise coarse-grainings for exact renormalisation group equations is given. It is aimed at improving the convergence of approximate solutions of flow equations. The optimisation criterion is generic, as it refers…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-07-09 Daniel F. Litim

For a wide class of polynomially nonlinear systems of partial differential equations we suggest an algorithmic approach that combines differential and difference algebra to analyze s(trong)-consistency of finite difference approximations.…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2020-09-04 Vladimir P. Gerdt , Daniel Robertz , Yuri A. Blinkov