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Flexible elastic structures, such as beams, rods, ribbons, plates, and shells, exhibit complex nonlinear dynamical behaviors that are central to a wide range of engineering and scientific applications, including soft robotics, deployable…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-04-16 Weicheng Huang , Zhuonan Hao , Jiahao Li , Dezhong Tong , Kexin Guo , Yingchao Zhang , Huajian Gao , K. Jimmy Hsia , Mingchao Liu

A cellular automata approach using a Directed Cyclic Graph is used to model interrelationships of fluctuating time, state and space. This model predicts phenomena including a constant and maximum speed at which any moving entity can travel,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Daniel Brown

We propose the difference discrete variational principle in discrete mechanics and symplectic algorithm with variable step-length of time in finite duration based upon a noncommutative differential calculus established in this paper. This…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-01-17 Xu-Dong Luo , Han-Ying Guo , Yu-Qi Li , Ke Wu

In this paper I present a first attempt for a possible description of fluids dynamics by mean of a cellular automata technique. With the use of simple and elementary rules, based on random behaviour either, the model permits to obtain the…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Gianluca Argentini

We develop criteria based on a calibration argument via discrete PDE and semidiscrete optimal transport, for finding sharp isoperimetric inequalities of the form $(\sharp \Omega)^{d-1} \le C (\sharp \overrightarrow{\partial\Omega})^d$ where…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2020-12-22 Mircea Petrache , Matias Gomez

In the paper, we study behavior of discrete dynamical systems (automata) w.r.t. transitivity; that is, speaking loosely, we consider how diverse may be behavior of the system w.r.t. variety of word transformations performed by the system:…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2014-03-05 Vladimir Anashin

This paper studies the problem of distributed Riemannian optimization over a network of agents whose cost functions are geodesically smooth but possibly geodesically non-convex. Extending a well-known distributed optimization strategy…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-26 Xiuheng Wang , Ricardo Borsoi , Cédric Richard , Ali H. Sayed

How do cellular automata behave in the limit of a very large number of cells? Is there a continuum limit with simple properties? We attack this problem by mapping certain classes of automata to quantum field theories for which powerful…

Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases · Physics 2022-12-08 C. Wetterich

Geodesics on Riemannian manifolds are precisely the locally length-minimizing curves, but their explicit description via simple functions is rarely possible. Geodesics of the simplest form, such as lines on Euclidean space and great circles…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-07-16 Nikolaos Panagiotis Souris

In this work we study the geodesic motion on a noncommutative space-time. As a result we find a non-commutative geodesic equation and then we derive corrections of the deviation angle per revolution in terms of the non-commutative parameter…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-07-17 S. C. Ulhoa , R. G. G. Amorim , A. F. Santos

A simple mathematical expression for the universal map for cellular automata is found in closed form with the help of a digit function, whose most basic properties are established. This result is found after proving a theorem on the…

Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases · Physics 2015-08-03 Vladimir Garcia-Morales

The dynamical formulation of optimal transport, also known as Benamou-Brenier formulation or Computational Fluid Dynamics formulation, amounts to write the optimal transport problem as the optimization of a convex functional under a PDE…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-05-25 Hugo Lavenant

We propose a computer-assisted approach to studying the effective continuum behavior of spatially discrete evolution equations. The advantage of the approach is that the "coarse model" (the continuum, effective equation) need not be…

Computational Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Moeller , O. Runborg , P. G. Kevrekidis , K. Lust , I. G. Kevrekidis

A theory of graded manifolds can be viewed as a generalization of differential geometry of smooth manifolds. It allows one to work with functions which locally depend not only on ordinary real variables, but also on $\mathbb{Z}$-graded…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-03-14 Jan Vysoky

We extend the application of Hamiltonian Monte Carlo to allow for sampling from probability distributions defined over symmetric or Hermitian positive definite matrices. To do so, we exploit the Riemannian structure induced by Cartan's…

Computation · Statistics 2016-12-28 Andrew Holbrook , Shiwei Lan , Alexander Vandenberg-Rodes , Babak Shahbaba

The Continuum Dislocation Dynamics (CDD) theory and the Discrete Dislocation Dynamics (DDD) method are compared based on concise mathematical formulations of the coarse graining of discrete data. A numerical tool for converting from a…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-03-03 Stefan Sandfeld , Giacomo Po

Distance functions are crucial in robotics for representing spatial relationships between a robot and its environment. They provide an implicit, continuous, and differentiable representation that integrates seamlessly with control,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Yiming Li , Jiacheng Qiu , Sylvain Calinon

Discrete gradient methods are a powerful tool for the time discretization of dynamical systems, since they are structure-preserving regardless of the form of the total energy. In this work, we discuss the application of discrete gradient…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-06 Philipp L. Kinon , Riccardo Morandin , Philipp Schulze

We define an evolution of multiple particles on a discrete manifold $G$. Each particle alone moves on geodesics and particles can interact if they are on the same facet. They move deterministically and reversibly on the frame bundle $P$ of…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-06-17 Oliver Knill

Shape optimization is commonly applied in engineering to optimize shapes with respect to an objective functional relying on PDE solutions. In this paper, we view shape optimization as optimization on Riemannian shape manifolds. We consider…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-09 Estefania Loayza-Romero , Kathrin Welker