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The possibility of variations of the values of fundamental constants is a phenomenon predicted by a number of scenarios beyond General Relativity. This can happen if ``our'' fundamental constants are not the actual constants of the…

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We describe a continuous-time modelling framework for biological population dynamics that accounts for demographic noise. In the spirit of the methodology used by statistical physicists, transitions between the states of the system are…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2018-07-19 George W. A. Constable , Alan J. McKane

Recently uncovered second derivative discontinuous solutions of the simplest linear ordinary differential equation define not only an nonstandard extension of the framework of the ordinary calculus, but also provide a dynamical…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2010-01-12 Dhurjati Prasad Datta

The evolution of a quantity, described by a function of space and time, relates the first derivative in time of this function to a spatial operator applied to the function. The initial value of the function at time $t=0$ is given. The…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Michelle M. Wyss , Walter Wyss

We study the stochastic evolution of four species in cyclic competition in a well mixed environment. In systems composed of a finite number $N$ of particles these simple interaction rules result in a rich variety of extinction scenarios,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-07-09 C. H. Durney , S. O. Case , M. Pleimling , R. K. P. Zia

This paper presents a general theory that aims at explaining timescales observed empirically in technology transitions and predicting those of future transitions. This framework is used further to derive a theory for exploring the dynamics…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2013-04-16 Jean-Francois Mercure

All physical process are subject to some laws which determine with math accurately its time-space evolution. These laws are described, in the last analysis for the principle of causality. The physical space can be homogeneous or…

General Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Enrique Ordaz Romay

In sustained growth with random dynamics stationary distributions can exist without detailed balance. This suggests thermodynamical behavior in fast growing complex systems. In order to model such phenomena we apply both a discrete and a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-03-22 Tamás Biró , Zoltán Néda

We propose a segment description for turbulent solutions to evolution equations in an effort to develop an effective description rather than the classical Reynolds average. The new description has connections with symbolic dynamics and…

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A recent article in Nature Physics unified key results from thermodynamics, statistics, and information theory. The unification arose from a general equation for the rate of change in the information content of a system. The general…

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Many real-world systems exhibit ``noisy'' evolution in time; interpreting their finitely-sampled behavior as arising from continuous-time processes (in the It\^o or Stratonovich sense) has led to significant success in modeling and analysis…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-07-29 David Sabin-Miller , Daniel M. Abrams

Equations for dislocation evolution bridge the gap between dislocation properties and continuum descriptions of plastic behavior of crystalline materials. Computer simulations can help us verify these evolution equations and find their…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-11-11 Kamyar M. Davoudi , Joost J. Vlassak

In recent years it became apparent that geophysical abrasion can be well characterized by the time evolution $N(t)$ of the number $N$ of static balance points of the abrading particle. Static balance points correspond to the critical points…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2018-02-20 Gábor Domokos , Zsolt Lángi , András A. Sipos

Under the assumption that the variations of parameters of nature and the current acceleration of the universe are related and governed by the evolution of a single scalar field, we show how information can be obtained on the nature of dark…

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Rapid evolution of sensor technology, advances in instrumentation, and progress in devising data-acquisition softwares/hardwares are providing vast amounts of data for various complex phenomena, ranging from those in atomospheric…

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We investigate the non-equilibrium properties of an N-component scalar field theory. The time evolution of the correlation functions for an arbitrary ensemble of initial conditions is described by an exact functional differential equation.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-09-06 Luis M. A. Bettencourt , Christof Wetterich

Cosmology is an attracting subject for students but usually difficult to deal with if general relativity is not known. In this article, we first recall the Newtonian derivation of the Friedmann equations which govern the dynamics of our…

Physics Education · Physics 2009-11-07 Jean-Philippe Uzan , Roland Lehoucq

Commonly, normal diffusive behavior is characterized by a linear dependence of the second central moment on time, $< x^2(t) >\propto t$, while anomalous behavior is expected to show a different time dependence, $ < x^2(t) > \propto…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-13 Bartlomiej Dybiec , Ewa Gudowska-Nowak

We consider a stochastic version of the basic predator-prey differential equation model. The model, which contains a parameter \omega which represents the number of individuals for one unit of prey -- If x denotes the quantity of prey in…

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