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In this paper, we give a rigorous derivation of Einstein's geodesic hypothesis in general relativity. We use scaling stable solitons for nonlinear wave equations to approximate the test particle. Given a vacuum spacetime $([0,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-08-20 Shiwu Yang

This paper is concerned with a structural analysis of euclidean field theories on the euclidean sphere. In the first section we give proposal for axioms for a euclidean field theory on a sphere in terms of C*-algebras. Then, in the second…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Dirk Schlingemann

We first introduce a class of divergence measures between power spectral density matrices. These are derived by comparing the suitability of different models in the context of optimal prediction. Distances between "infinitesimally close"…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-11-18 Xianhua Jiang , Lipeng Ning , Tryphon T. Georgiou

For a positively charged insulated d-dimensional sphere we investigate how the distribution of this charge is affected by proximity to a nearby positive or negative point charge when the system is governed by a Riesz s-potential 1/r^s, s>0,…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-02-17 Johann S. Brauchart , Peter D. Dragnev , Edward B. Saff

We provide a set of general tools to study the problem of stellar equilibrium in any gravitational theory in which spherically symmetric spacetimes satisfy master field equations taking the form of an equality between an identically…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-26 Julio Arrechea , Raúl Carballo-Rubio , Matt Visser

We propose a notion of distance between two parametrized planar curves, called their discrepancy, and defined intuitively as the minimal amount of deformation needed to deform the source curve into the target curve. A precise definition of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-08-15 Darryl D. Holm , Lyle Noakes , Joris Vankerschaver

In this paper, we first prove a folklore conjecture on a greatest lower bound of the Calabi energy in all K\"ahler manifold. Similar result in algebriac setting was obtained by S. K. Donaldson. Secondly, we give an upper/lower bound…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 X. X. Chen

We consider the minimal energy problem on the unit sphere $\mathbb S^2$ in the Euclidean space $\mathbb R^3$ immersed in an external field $Q$, where the charges are assumed to interact via Newtonian potential $1/r$, $r$ being the Euclidean…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2015-10-23 Mykhailo Bilogliadov

We study the general properties of fluid spheres satisfying the heuristic assumption that their areas and proper radius are equal (the Euclidean condition). Dissipative and non-dissipative models are considered. In the latter case, all…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-20 L. Herrera , N. O. Santos

Geodesics escape is widely used to study the scattering of hyperbolic equations. However, there are few progresses except in a simply connected complete Riemannian manifold with nonpositive curvature. We propose a kind of complete…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-12-03 Zhen-Hu Ning , Fengyan Yang , Xiaopeng Zhao

Given a Riemannian manifold $M$ and an $L^2$-normalized Laplacian eigenfunction $\psi$ on $M$ with eigenvalue $\lambda^2$, a general problem in analysis is to understand how the mass of $\psi$ distributes around $M$. There are different…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2025-09-30 Maximiliano Sanchez Garza

It is shown that unlike the perfect fluid case, anisotropic fluids (principal stresses unequal) may be geodesic, without this implying the vanishing of (spatial) pressure gradients. Then the condition of vanishing four acceleration is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 L. Herrera , J. Martin , J. Ospino

The density profiles and other quantities of physical interest for spherically symmetric systems are computed by assuming that a collisionless stellar gas may relax to the non-Gaussian power law distribution suggested by the nonextensive…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-07-19 J. A. S. Lima , R. E. de Souza

A simple observation about the action for geodesics in a stationary spacetime with separable geodesic equations leads to a natural class of slicings of that spacetime whose orthogonal geodesic trajectories represent freely falling…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-22 Donato Bini , Andrea Geralico , Robert T. Jantzen

In this paper we develop a Morse theory for the uniform energy. We use the one-sided directional derivative of the distance function to study the minimizing properties of variations through closed geodesics. This derivative is then used to…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-09-14 Ian Adelstein , Jonathan Epstein

We compare the Brown-York (BY) and the standard Misner-Sharp (MS) quasilocal energies for round spheres in spherically symmetric space-times from the point of view of radial geodesics. In particular, we show that the relation between the BY…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Matthias Blau , Blaise Rollier

We study configurations of points on the unit sphere that minimize potential energy for a broad class of potential functions (viewed as functions of the squared Euclidean distance between points). Call a configuration sharp if there are m…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2012-03-15 Henry Cohn , Abhinav Kumar

Consider the defocusing quintic nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger equation on $\mathbf{R}^3$ with initial data in the energy space. This problem is "energy-critical" in view of a certain scale-invariance, which is a main source of difficulty in the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-08-26 Casey Jao

The method of geodesic deviations provides analytic approximations to geodesics in arbitrary background space-times. As such the method is a useful tool in many practical situations. In this note we point out some subtleties in the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-05-10 G. Koekoek , J. W. van Holten

It was proved in the first part of this work \cite{0} that Stolarsky's invariance principle, known previously for point distributions on the Euclidean spheres \cite{33}, can be extended to the real, complex, and quaternionic projective…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2020-01-01 Maksim Skriganov