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Louis Poinsot has shown in 1854 that the motion of a rigid body, with one of its points fixed, can be described as the rolling without slipping of one cone, the 'body cone', along another, the 'space cone', with their common vertex at the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-04-22 Gil Bor , Mark Levi

We use the Binary Intrinsic Dimension (BID), a geometrical measure designed for binary data, to analyze the Hopfield model, a paradigmatic spin system from statistical mechanics, machine learning and neuroscience. The BID allows us to…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2026-01-27 Cristopher Erazo , Santiago Acevedo , Alessandro Ingrosso

Modeling of a wide class of physical phenomena, such as crystal growth and flame propagation, leads to tracking fronts moving with curvature-dependent speed. When the speed is the curvature this leads to one of the classical degenerate…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-08-08 Tobias Holck Colding , William P. Minicozzi

In this paper, position vectors of a time-like curve with respect to standard frame of Minkowski space E$^3_1$ are studied in terms of Frenet equations. First, we prove that position vector of every time-like space curve in Minkowski space…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-06-23 Ahmad T. Ali , Melih Turgut

A discrete analogue of the dressing method is presented and used to derive integrable nonlinear evolution equations, including two infinite families of novel continuous and discrete coupled integrable systems of equations of nonlinear…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2018-10-18 Gino Biondini , Qiao Wang

We develop a technique for estimating the inner eccentricity in hierarchical triple systems, with the inner orbit being initially circular, while the outer one is eccentric. We consider coplanar systems with well separated components and…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2014-08-27 Nikolaos Georgakarakos

The asymptotic analysis of kinetic models describing the behavior of particles interacting through alignment is performed. We will analyze the asymptotic regime corresponding to large alignment frequency where the alignment effects are…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-01-16 M. Bostan , J. A. Carrillo

In this work we are interested in the characterization of curves that belong to a given surface. To the best of our knowledge, there is no known general solution to this problem. Indeed, a solution is only available for a few examples:…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-07-18 Luiz C. B. da Silva

It is hereby established that, in Euclidean spaces of finite dimension, bounded self-contracted curves have finite length. This extends the main result of Daniilidis, Ley, and Sabourau (J. Math. Pures Appl. 2010) concerning continuous…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2012-11-15 Aris Daniilidis , Guy David , Estibalitz Durand-Cartagena , Antoine Lemenant

We discuss the appropriate techniques for modelling the geometry of open ended elastic polymer molecules. The molecule is assumed to have fixed endpoints on a boundary surface. In particular we discuss the concept of the winding number, a…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2010-04-29 C B Prior , M A Berger

This paper introduces a novel wave front tracking framework for reconstructing unknown flux functions in $2\times 2$ hyperbolic conservation laws, extending beyond the well-studied scalar case. By analyzing Riemann solutions at fixed…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-11-25 Chaohua Duan , Yan Jiang , Hongyu Liu , Wenjian Peng

The interaction of crack fronts with asperities is central to the criteria of fracture in heterogeneous materials and for predicting fracture surface formation. It is known how dynamic crack fronts respond to small, 1st-order,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-09-17 Itamar Kolvin , Mokhtar Adda-Bedia

In this paper, we establish homological mirror symmetry where the A-model is a finite quotient of the Milnor fibre of an invertible curve singularity, proving a conjecture of Lekili and Ueda from arXiv:1806.04345 in this dimension. Our…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2023-11-09 Matthew Habermann

This paper concerns the reconstruction of a scalar coefficient of a second-order elliptic equation in divergence form posed on a bounded domain from internal data. This theory finds applications in multi-wave imaging, greedy methods to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-05-19 Faouzi Triki , Tao Yin

The Arnowitt-Deser-Misner (ADM) evolution equations for the induced metric and the extrinsic-curvature tensor of the spacelike surfaces which foliate the space-time manifold in canonical general relativity are a first-order system of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Giampiero Esposito , Cosimo Stornaiolo

This work is devoted to the control of the Fokker-Planck equation, posed on a smooth bounded domain of R^d, with a localized drift force. We prove that this equation is locally controllable to regular nonzero trajectories. Moreover, under…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-03-17 Michel Duprez , Pierre Lissy

Many high-dimensional practical data sets have hierarchical structures induced by graphs or time series. Such data sets are hard to process in Euclidean spaces and one often seeks low-dimensional embeddings in other space forms to perform…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-13 Chao Pan , Eli Chien , Puoya Tabaghi , Jianhao Peng , Olgica Milenkovic

Two-fold singularities in a piecewise smooth (PWS) dynamical system in $\mathbb{R}^3$ have long been the subject of intensive investigation. The interest stems from the fact that trajectories which enter the two-fold are associated with…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2018-09-28 Kristian Uldall Kristiansen , S. John Hogan

A class of planar bipedal robots with unique mechanical properties has been proposed, where all links are balanced around the hip joint, preventing natural swinging motion due to gravity. A common property of their equations of motion is…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Fumihiko Asano , Ning Lei , Taiki Sedoguchi

We study Hopf bifurcation from traveling-front solutions in the Cahn-Hilliard equation. The primary front is induced by a moving source term. Models of this form have been used to study a variety of physical phenomena, including pattern…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-08-15 Ryan Goh , Arnd Scheel