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We study the conservation laws in the teleparallel theory with a positive cosmological constant, an extension of the teleparallel theory possessing solutions with de Sitter asymptotics. Demanding that the canonical generators of the…

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The equilibrium partitioning of linear polymer chains into flexible polymer networks is governed by intricate entropic constraints arising from configurational degrees of freedom of both chains and network, yet a quantitative understanding…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-05-09 Haruki Takarai , Takashi Yasuda , Naoyuki Sakumichi , Takamasa Sakai

We investigate higher-order corrections to correlators in a general CFT (conformal field theory) with the double-trace $T\bar{T}$ deformation. Standard perturbation theory proves inadequate for this problem due to the intricate…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-07-31 Song He , Yuan Sun , Jiashi Yin

A complete and explicit classification of all independent local conservation laws of Maxwell's equations in four dimensional Minkowski space is given. Besides the elementary linear conservation laws, and the well-known quadratic…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Stephen C. Anco , Juha Pohjanpelto

The defining property of electronic nematicity -- the spontaneous breaking of rotational symmetry -- implies an unavoidable coupling between the nematic order parameter and elastic strain fields, known as nemato-elasticity. While both…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-04-22 W. Joe Meese , Rafael M. Fernandes

All possible linearly independent local conservation laws for $n$-dimensional diffusion--convection equations $u_t=(A(u))_{ii}+(B^i(u))_i$ were constructed using the direct method and the composite variational principle. Application of the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2008-12-16 Nataliya M. Ivanova

We establish a macroscopic description of the splay--density coupling in semiflexible main-chain nematic polymers with hairpins, using a vectorial continuity constraint for the "recovered" polar order of the chain tangents and introducing…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-11-15 Aleksandar Popadić , Daniel Svenšek , Rudolf Podgornik , Kostas Ch. Daoulas , Matej Praprotnik

Nonlinear self-adjointness method for constructing conservation laws of partial differential equations (PDEs) is further studied. We show that any adjoint symmetry of PDEs is a differential substitution of nonlinear self-adjointness and…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-05-22 Zhi-Yong Zhang

Despite their considerable practical and biological applications, the link between molecular properties, assembly conditions and self-organized structure in confined polymer solutions remains elusive. Here, we explore the lyotropic nematic…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-03-21 Maxime M. C. Tortora , Daniel Jost

We study the conservation laws associated with the asymptotic Poincare symmetry of spacetime in the general teleparallel theory of gravity. Demanding that the canonical Poincare generators have well defined functional derivatives in a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 M. Blagojevic , M. Vasilic

A key assumption of polymer physics is that the random chains polymers extend in flow. Recent experimental evidence has shown that polymer chains compress in Couette flow in a manner counter to expectation. Here, scaling arguments developed…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-06-05 Dave E. Dunstan

The viscous flow of polymer chains in dense melts is dominated by topological constraints whenever the single chain contour length, N, becomes larger than the characteristic scale Ne, defining comprehensively the macroscopic rheological…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-07-19 Mattia Alberto Ubertini , Angelo Rosa

We study the effect of dielectric anisotropy of polymers on their equilibrium ordering within mean-field theory but with a formalism that takes into account the full n-body nature of van der Waals forces. Dielectric anisotropy within…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-12-18 David S. Dean , Rudolf Podgornik

The persistence length of a single, strongly charged, stiff polyelectrolyte chain is investigated theoretically. Path integral formulation is used to obtain the effective electrostatic interaction between the monomers. We find significant…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 Gil Ariel , David Andelman

We shall investigate the consequences of non-trivial Weyl geometries on conservation laws of a fluid. In particular we shall obtain a set of properties which allow to obtain in this generalized setting the standard relation between…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-09-20 L. Fatibene , M. Francaviglia

Conservation laws are discussed in conjunction with quantum-mechanical indeterminacies of the corresponding observables. The considered examples show that the connections between energy and its indeterminacy may be quite intricate. The…

General Physics · Physics 2022-09-15 Moses Fayngold

Symmetries and conservation laws are studied for two classes of physically and analytically interesting radial wave equations with power nonlinearities in multi-dimensions. The results consist of two main classifications: all symmetries of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 Stephen C. Anco , Steven A. MacNaughton , Thomas Wolf

We explore the effect of random permanent cross-links on a system of directed polymers confined between two planes with their end-points free to slide on them. We treat the cross-links as quenched disorder and we use a semimicroscopic…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2010-02-22 Stephan Ulrich , Annette Zippelius , Panayotis Benetatos

We introduce notions of equivalence of conservation laws with respect to Lie symmetry groups for fixed systems of differential equations and with respect to equivalence groups or sets of admissible transformations for classes of such…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Roman O. Popovych , Nataliya M. Ivanova

For every mapping of a perturbed spacetime onto a background and with any vector field $\xi$ we construct a conserved covariant vector density $I(\xi)$, which is the divergence of a covariant antisymmetric tensor density, a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Joseph Katz , Jiri Bicak , Donald Lynden-Bell