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Contact geometry allows to describe some thermodynamic and dissipative systems. In this paper we introduce a new geometric structure in order to describe time-dependent contact systems: cocontact manifolds. Within this setting we develop…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-01-27 Manuel de León , Jordi Gaset , Xavier Gràcia , Miguel Carlos Muñoz-Lecanda , Xavier Rivas

Hamilton-Jacobi (HJ) Reachability is widely used to compute value functions for states satisfying specific control objectives. However, it becomes intractable for high-dimensional problems due to the curse of dimensionality. Dimensionality…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-16 Chong He , Mugilan Mariappan , Keval Vora , Mo Chen

Entropy and other fundamental quantities of information theory are customarily expressed and manipulated as functions of probabilities. Here we study the entropy H and subentropy Q as functions of the elementary symmetric polynomials in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-05-02 Richard Jozsa , Graeme Mitchison

We use the Liouville eigenfunctions to define a classical version of the geometric tensor and study its relationship with the classical adiabatic gauge potential (AGP). We focus on integrable systems and show that the imaginary part of the…

Classical Physics · Physics 2023-07-06 A. D. Bermúdez Manjarres

In this paper, we propose a discrete Hamilton--Jacobi theory for (discrete) Hamiltonian dynamics defined on a (discrete) contact manifold. To this end, we first provide a novel geometric Hamilton--Jacobi theory for continuous contact…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2022-09-14 Oğul Esen , Cristina Sardón , Marcin Zajac

This paper explores the relationship between Cartan symmetries, dynamical similarities, and dynamical symmetries in contact Hamiltonian mechanics. By introducing an alternative decomposition of vector fields, we characterize these…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-04-09 Federico Zadra , Marcello Seri

The aim of this paper is to create a large geometrical background on the dual 1-jet space J^{1*}(T,M) for a multi-time Hamiltonian approach of the electromagnetic and gravitational physical fields. Our geometric-physical construction is…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-07-12 Alexandru Oana , Mircea Neagu

In this work, an efficient method for constructing a complete integral of the geodesic Hamilton-Jacobi equation on pseudo-Riemannian manifolds with simply transitive groups of motions is suggested. The method is based on using a special…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2021-03-25 A. A. Magazev

We give a new method to prove in a uniform and easy way various transformation formulas for Gauss hypergeometric functions. The key is Jacobi's canonical form of the hypergeometric differential equation. Analogy for $q$-hypergeometric…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2019-09-18 Noriyuki Otsubo

The aim of this paper is to develop a Hamilton--Jacobi theory for contact Hamiltonian systems. We find several forms for a suitable Hamilton-Jacobi equation accordingly to the Hamiltonian and the evolution vector fields for a given…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2021-07-06 Manuel de León , Manuel Laínz , Álvaro Muñiz--Brea

Stochastic contact Hamiltonian systems are a class of important mathematical models, which can describe the dissipative properties with odd dimensions in the stochastic environment. In this article, we investigate the numerical dynamics of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-11-19 Qingyi Zhan , Jinqiao Duan , Xiaofan Li , Lijin Wang

We study the homogenization of first-order Hamilton-Jacobi equations on an infinite-dimensional Hilbert space, motivated by systems of infinitely many indistinguishable particles on the torus. A central difficulty is that the analysis takes…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-22 Seho Park

In the framework of quantum information geometry we investigate the relationship between monotone metric tensors uniquely defined on the space of quantum tomograms, once the tomographic scheme chosen, and monotone quantum metrics on the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-12-01 Marco Laudato , Giuseppe Marmo , Fabio M. Mele , Franco Ventriglia , Patrizia Vitale

The paper is concerned with the properties of the distance function from a closed subset of a Riemannian manifold, with particular attention to the set of singularities.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-06-05 Carlo Mantegazza , Andrea Carlo Mennucci

In this paper we develop a Hamilton-Jacobi theory in the setting of almost Poisson manifolds. The theory extends the classical Hamilton-Jacobi theory and can be also applied to very general situations including nonholonomic mechanical…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2012-09-25 Manuel de León , David Martín de Diego , Miguel Vaquero

The long standing problem of the ordering ambiguity in the definition of the Hamilton operator for a point particle in curved space is naturally resolved by using the powerful geometric calculus based on Clifford Algebra. The momentum…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 Matej Pavsic

An ordinary unambiguous integral representation for the finite propagator of a quantum system is found by starting of a privileged skeletonization of the functional action in phase space, provided by the complete solution of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Rafael Ferraro

Cylindrically symmetric vacuum spacetimes are of immense interest in theoretical physics due to its connection to cosmic strings hypothesized in quantum field theory. In this article, we explore the properties of such spacetime and provide…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-01-23 Ashiqul Islam Dip , Nishat Anjum , Maruf Ahmed , Iffat Zumarradah

Using the methods of symplectic geometry, we establish the existence of a canonical transformation from potential model Hamiltonians of standard form in a Euclidean space to an equivalent geometrical form on a manifold, where the…

Classical Physics · Physics 2017-08-04 Y. Strauss , L. P. Horwitz , A. Yahalom , J. Levitan

We present the analytic solution for the stationary quantum HamiltonJacobi equation. Knowing the strong relation between the Riccati and quantum Hamilton-Jacobi equations, we develop a simple method to obtain the exact solution. Then, in…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-09-06 L. A. Poveda-Cuevas , F. J. Poveda-Cuevas