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The impossibility of a transposable 12 semitone tuning of the octave arises from the mathematical fact that $2 \times 2^{7/12} \neq 3$ i.e., the second harmonic of the fifth can not exactly match the third harmonic of the fundamental. This…

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In this paper we study the stability problem of a tree of elastic strings with local Kelvin-Voigt damping on some of the edges. Under the compatibility condition of displacement and strain and continuity condition of damping coefficients at…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-03-21 Kaïs Ammari , Zhuangyi Liu , Farhat Shel

We explore physics of unstable particles when mother particle mass is around the sum of its daughter particle masses. In this case, the conventional wave function renormalization factor is ill-defined. We propose a simple resolution of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-08-03 Dongjin Chway , Tae Hyun Jung , Hyung Do Kim

These lectures present some topics of string phenomenology and contain two parts. In the first part, I review the possibility of lowering the string scale in the TeV region, that provides a theoretical framework for solving the mass…

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We compute fermion quantum corrections to the energy of cosmic strings. A number of rather technical tools is needed to formulate this correction and we employ isospin and gauge invariance to verify consistency of these tools. These…

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Different dynamics, described by kinetic equation and clipping method is shown as well as a role of approximate resonances in wave turbulence theory. Applications of clipping method are sketched for gravity-capillary and drift waves. Brief…

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We describe various aspects of plane wave backgrounds. In particular, we make explicit a simple criterion for singularity by establishing a relation between Brinkmann metric entries and diffeomorphism-invariant curvature information. We…

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We use a combination of a 't Hooft limit and numerical methods to find non-perturbative solutions of exactly solvable string theories, showing that perturbative solutions in different asymptotic regimes are connected by smooth interpolating…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-08-31 Ramakrishnan Iyer , Clifford V. Johnson , Jeffrey S. Pennington

We study systems of String Equations where block variables need to be assigned strings so that their concatenation gives a specified target string. We investigate this problem under a multivariate complexity framework, searching for…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2021-04-30 Laurent Bulteau , Michael R. Fellows , Christian Komusiewicz , Frances Rosamond

The issue of the equilibrium-range formation in the wind-wave spectrum is studied by a direct numerical simulation. The evolution equation of wind-wave spectrum is numerically solved with using an exact calculation of the Hasselmann kinetic…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2017-01-20 Vladislav Polnikov

A problem of a wave identification is formulated. An example is considered in conditions of one-dimensional Cauchy problem for conventional string equation in matrix form and its inhomogeneous two-component version. The acoustic and…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-12-30 Sergey Leble , Irina Vereshchagina

We develop further a new geometrical model of a discretized string, proposed in [1] and establish its basic physical properties. The model can be considered as the natural extention of the usual Feynman amplitude of the random walks to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-02-13 G. Savvidy , K. Savvidy

Gravitational wave observations provide unique opportunities to search for cosmic strings. One of the strongest sources of gravitational waves is discontinuities of cosmic strings, called kinks, which are generated at points of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-09 Yuka Matsui , Koichiro Horiguchi , Daisuke Nitta , Sachiko Kuroyanagi

Studying physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) for modeling partial differential equations to solve the acoustic wave field has produced promising results for simple geometries in two-dimensional domains. One option is to compute the…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Stefan Schoder , Aneta Furmanová , Viktor Hruška

We discuss the basic properties of the gonihedric string and the problem of its formulation in continuum. We propose a generalization of the Dirac equation and of the corresponding gamma matrices in order to describe the gonihedric string.…

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The vibrating string is a source of gravitational waves which requires novel computational techniques, based on the explicit construction of a conserved and renormalized (in a classical sense) energy-momentum tensor. The renormalization is…

General Physics · Physics 2018-12-26 R. A. Lewis , G. Modanese

In this paper we consider a system coupling a wave equation with a heat equation through its boundary conditions. The existence of a small parameter in the heat equation, as a factor multiplying the time derivative, implies the existence of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-06-06 Gonzalo Arias , Eduardo Cerpa , Swann Marx

In this work, we present a numerical study of the wave stability of steady solitary waves over a localised topographic obstacle through the full Euler equations. There are two branches of the solutions: one from the perturbed uniform flow…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-03-08 Marcelo V. Flamarion , Roberto Ribeiro-Jr

Consonance is related to the perception of pleasantness arising from a combination of sounds and has been approached quantitatively using mathematical relations, physics, information theory, and psychoacoustics. Tonal consonance is present…

Sound · Computer Science 2017-04-25 Jorge Useche , Rafael Hurtado

Nonlinear string vibration, in particular the case of nonplanar motion, has been an area of intense study for many years. Numerical simulation methods, essential for the comparison between measured data and theory, have received somewhat…

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