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We suggest an alternative mathematical model for the massless neutrino. Consider an elastic continuum in 3-dimensional Euclidean space and assume that points of this continuum can experience no displacements, only rotations. This framework…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-07-20 Olga Chervova , Dmitri Vassiliev

We investigate discretizations of a geometrically nonlinear elastic Cosserat shell with nonplanar reference configuration originally introduced by B\^irsan, Ghiba, Martin, and Neff in 2019. The shell model includes curvature terms up to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-08-02 Lisa Julia Nebel , Oliver Sander , Mircea Bîrsan , Patrizio Neff

In nonlinear elasticity, finding the deformation of a material which minimizes a given stored energy density is a challenging calculus of variations problem which may fail to have minimizers: the energy optimal material forms infinitely…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-16 Didier Henrion , Milan Korda , Martin Kružík , Karolına Sehnalová

We are concerned with a variant of the isoperimetric problem, which in our setting arises in a geometrically nonlinear two-well problem in elasticity. More precisely, we investigate the optimal scaling of the energy of an elastic inclusion…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-05-22 Ibrokhimbek Akramov , Hans Knüpfer , Martin Kružík , Angkana Rüland

Slender structures are ubiquitous in biological and physical systems, from bacterial flagella to soft robotic arms. The Cosserat rod provides a mathematical framework for slender bodies that can stretch, shear, twist and bend. In viscous…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-10-22 Mingjia Yan , Mohamed Warda , Balázs Németh , Lukas Kikuchi , Ronojoy Adhikari

The Cosserat continuum is used in this paper to regularize the ill-posed governing equations of the Cauchy/Maxwell continuum. Most available constitutive models adopt yield and plastic potential surfaces with a circular deviatoric section.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-02-23 Andrea Panteghini , Rocco Lagioia

The paper deals with the Weyl equation which is the massless Dirac equation. We study the Weyl equation in the stationary setting, i.e. when the the spinor field oscillates harmonically in time. We suggest a new geometric interpretation of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2012-03-27 Olga Chervova , Dmitri Vassiliev

In this paper, the modelling strategy of a Cosserat rod element (CRE) is addressed systematically for 3-dimensional dynamical analysis of slender structures. We employ the exact nonlinear kinematic relationships in the sense of Cosserat…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2007-05-23 D. Q. Cao , Dongsheng Liu , Charles H. -T. Wang

To draw conclusions as regards the stability and modelling limits of the investigated continuum, we consider a family of infinitesimal isotropic generalized continuum models (Mindlin-Eringen micromorphic, relaxed micromorphic continuum,…

Classical Physics · Physics 2021-06-11 Gianluca Rizzi , Geralf Hütter , Angela Madeo , Patrizio Neff

This study constrains the cosmological parameters within the scope of a spherically symmetric FLRW cosmological model, the role of a nonlinear spinor field in the universe's evolution. To test this approach, we incorporate the recent Cosmic…

General Physics · Physics 2026-05-18 Bijan Saha , Mahendra Goray

We present a nonlinear, geometrically exact, and thermodynamically consistent framework for modeling special Cosserat rods with evolving natural configurations. In contrast to the common usage of the point-wise Clausius-Duhem inequality to…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-04-11 K. R. Rajagopal , C. Rodriguez

Cosserat theory of elasticity is a generalization of classical elasticity that allows for asymmetry in the stress tensor by taking into account micropolar rotations in the medium. The equations involve a rotation field and associated…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-09-23 Jan Martin Nordbotten , Wietse M. Boon , Omar Duran , Eirik Keilegavlen

We determine the material parameters in the relaxed micromorphic generalized continuum model for a given periodic microstructure in this work. This is achieved through a least squares fitting of the total energy of the relaxed micromorphic…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-05-17 Mohammad Sarhil , Lisa Scheunemann , Peter Lewintan , Jörg Schröder , Patrizio Neff

We study the free energy of four-dimensional CFTs on deformed spheres. For generic nonsupersymmetric CFTs only the coefficient of the logarithmic divergence in the free energy is physical, which is an extremum for the round sphere. We then…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-03-10 Joseph A. Minahan , Usman Naseer , Charles Thull

In this paper, we consider weak solutions of the Euler-Lagrange equation to a variational energy functional modeling the geometrically nonlinear Cosserat micropolar elasticity of continua in dimension three, which is a system coupling…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-01-01 Yimei Li , Changyou Wang

We derive and analyze a novel approach for modeling and computing the mechanical relaxation of incommensurate 2D heterostructures. Our approach parametrizes the relaxation pattern by the compact local configuration space rather than real…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-09-04 Paul Cazeaux , Mitchell Luskin , Daniel Massatt

We consider the Max-Cut problem. Let $G = (V,E)$ be a graph with adjacency matrix $(a_{ij})_{i,j=1}^{n}$. Burer, Monteiro & Zhang proposed to find, for $n$ angles $\left\{\theta_1, \theta_2, \dots, \theta_n\right\} \subset [0, 2\pi]$,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-02-10 Stefan Steinerberger

Starting from a three-dimensional model based on the Ciarlet-Geymonat energy, we derive nonlinear shell models within the classical elasticity theory of compressible isotropic materials. The Neo-Hookean term involving the norm of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-20 Ionel-Dumitrel Ghiba , Trung Hieu Giang , Catalina Ureche

We consider the half-genus expansion of the resolvent function in the $\beta$-deformed matrix model with three-Penner potential under the AGT conjecture and the $0d-4d$ dictionary. The partition function of the model, after the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-11-28 Hiroshi Itoyama , Nobuhiro Yonezawa

In this paper, we first extend the finite distortion problem from the bounded domains in $\mathbb{R}^2$ to the closed genus-zero surfaces in $\mathbb{R}^3$ by the stereographic projection. Then we derive a theoretical foundation for…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-07-29 Tsung-Ming Huang , Wei-Hung Liao , Wen-Wei Lin