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Recently, much research has been carried out on Hamiltonians that are not Hermitian but are symmetric under space-time reflection, that is, Hamiltonians that exhibit PT symmetry. Investigations of the Sturm-Liouville eigenvalue problem…

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The Hamiltonian and Lagrangian formalisms offer two perspectives on quantum field theory. This paper sets up a framework to compare these approaches for the supersymmetric sigma model. The goal is to use techniques from physics to construct…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2017-02-22 Daniel Berwick-Evans

Using a Hamiltonian formulation of the spherically symmetric gravity-scalar field theory adapted to flat spatial slicing, we give a construction of the reduced Hamiltonian operator. This Hamiltonian, together with the null expansion…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Viqar Husain , Oliver Winkler

The inversion of the Laplace-Beltrami operator and the computation of the Hodge decomposition of a tangential vector field on smooth surfaces arise as computational tasks in many areas of science, from computer graphics to machine learning…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-08-16 Lise-Marie Imbert-Gerard , Leslie Greengard

Describing systems with non-Hermitian (NH) operators remains a challenge in quantum theory due to instabilities (e.g., exceptional points and decoherence) arising from interactions with the environment. We propose a framework to express the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-31 Priyanshi Bhasin , Tanmoy Das

A non-Hermitian operator with a real spectrum and a complete set of eigenvectors may serve as the Hamiltonian operator for a unitary quantum system provided that one makes an appropriate choice for the defining inner product of the physical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Ali Mostafazadeh

Using the embedded gradient vector field method (see P. Birtea, D. Comanescu, Hessian operators on constraint manifolds, J. Nonlinear Science 25, 2015), we present a general formula for the Laplace-Beltrami operator defined on a constraint…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-12-14 Petre Birtea , Ioan Casu , Dan Comanescu

We consider the Laplacian with a non-homogeneous metric in a tubular neighbourhood of a compact hypersurface in the Euclidean space of arbitrary dimension, subject to Neumann boundary conditions. It is shown that, in the limit of the width…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2022-04-26 Romana Kvasnickova

Keeping in view the ordering ambiguity that arises due to the presence of position-dependent effective mass in the kinetic energy term of the Hamiltonian, a general scheme for obtaining algebraic solutions of quantum mechanical systems with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-06-29 Naila Amir , Shahid Iqbal

Exploring the relationship between geometry and the resonant frequencies of a shape is of interest to pure and applied mathematicians. These resonant frequencies are related to the spectrum of the Laplacian, a partial differential operator.…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2018-08-23 Neal Coleman

We propose a method to simultaneously compute scalar basis functions with an associated functional map for a given pair of triangle meshes. Unlike previous techniques that put emphasis on smoothness with respect to the Laplace--Beltrami…

Graphics · Computer Science 2019-10-01 Omri Azencot , Rongjie Lai

We optimize a selection of eigenvalues of the Laplace operator with Dirichlet or Neumann boundary conditions by adjusting the shape of the domain on which the eigenvalue problem is considered. Here, a phase-field function is used to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-01-23 Harald Garcke , Paul Hüttl , Christian Kahle , Patrik Knopf , Tim Laux

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

Based on some results on reparmetrisation of time in Hamiltonian path integral formalism, a pseudo time formulation of operator formalism of quantum mechanics is presented. Relation of reparametrisation of time in quantum with super…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-04-21 A. K. Kapoor

We study two-dimensional Hamiltonians in phase space with noncommutativity both in coordinates and momenta. We consider the generator of rotations on the noncommutative plane and the Lie algebra generated by Hermitian rotationally invariant…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-02-17 H. Falomir , P. A. G. Pisani , F. Vega , D. Cárcamo , F. Méndez , M. Loewe

We introduce the concept of Hamiltonian potential variables to map Hamiltonian operators into symplectic operators in a dual space. This generalises the classical trick of switching to a potential variable to obtain a Lagrangian density for…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2026-04-22 Pierandrea Vergallo , Mats Vermeeren

We investigate a U(1) gauge invariant quantum mechanical system on a 2D noncommutative space with coordinates generating a generalized deformed oscillator algebra. The Hamiltonian is taken as a quadratic form in gauge covariant derivatives…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Sergey M. Klishevich , Mikhail S. Plyushchay

It is shown that eigenvalues of Laplace-Beltrami operators on compact Riemannian manifolds can be determined as limits of eigenvalues of certain finite-dimensional operators in spaces of polyharmonic functions with singularities. In…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2014-03-21 Isaac Z. Pesenson

Most 3D shape analysis methods use triangular meshes to discretize both the shape and functions on it as piecewise linear functions. With this representation, shape analysis requires fine meshes to represent smooth shapes and geometric…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-30 V. Estellers , F. R. Schmidt , D. Cremers

A practical solution for the mathematical problem of functional calculus with Laplace-Beltrami operator on surfaces with axial symmetry is found. A quantitative analysis of the spectrum is presented.

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 E. Prodan