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According to Huygens' principle, all points on a wave front act as secondary sources emitting spherical waves, and the envelope of these spherical waves forms a new wave front. In the mathematical formulation of Huygens' principle, the…
A classical problem in acoustic (and electromagnetic) scattering concerns the evaluation of the Green's function for the Helmholtz equation subject to impedance boundary conditions on a half-space. The two principal approaches used for…
By associating a binary signal with the relativistic worldline of a particle, a binary form of the phase of non-relativistic wavefunctions is naturally produced by time dilation. An analog of superposition also appears as a Lorentz…
Superposition rules form a class of functions that describe general solutions of systems of first-order ordinary differential equations in terms of generic families of particular solutions and certain constants. In this work we extend this…
If one takes seriously the postulate of quantum mechanics in which physical states are rays in the standard Hilbert space of the theory, one is naturally lead to a geometric formulation of the theory. Within this formulation of quantum…
The superposition principle is fundamental to linear wave systems, ensuring that their physical behaviour is independent of the chosen basis representation. While this principle underpins many analytical techniques, including modal…
Kirchhoff's law provides a relation between the incident fields a structure can absorb and those it thermally emits. It is generally formulated as a relation between the angle-dependent emissivity and absorptivity of a structure. In this…
In this paper we propose a counterexample to the validity of the Comparison Principle and of the Sub and Supersolution Method for nonlocal problems like the stationary Kirchhoff Equation. This counterexample shows that in general smooth…
In this paper we study the validity of the comparison principle and the sub-supersolution method for Kirchhoff type equations. We show that these principles do not work when the Kirchhoff function is increasing, contradicting some previous…
We show that the propagation of a N-photon field in space and time can be described by a generalized Huygens-Fresnel integral. Using two examples, we then demonstrate how familiar Fourier optics techniques applied to a N-photon wave…
Applying the classical Serre-Swan theorem, as this is extended to topological (non-normed) algebras, one attains a classification of elementary particles via their spin-structure. In this context, our argument is virtually based on a…
The generalized Huygens principle for the Cauchy problem of a generic non-conservative compressible two-fluid model in R3 was established. This work fills a key gap in the theory, as previous results were confined to systems with full…
Without a complete theory of quantum gravity, the question of how quantum fields and quantum particles behave in a superposition of spacetimes seems beyond the reach of theoretical and experimental investigations. Here we use an extension…
To set up a self-consistent quantum field theory of degenerate systems, the unperturbed state should be described by a density matrix instead of a pure state. This increases the combinatorial complexity of the many-body equations. Hopf…
In this article functorial Feynman rules are introduced as large generalizations of physicists Feynman rules, in the sense that they can be applied to arbitrary classes of hypergraphs, possibly endowed with any kind of structure on their…
We prove a superposition principle in the spirit of Crandall-Zhang and Lindqvist-Manfredi for a class of second order quasilinear equations. Riesz potentials of nonnegative and compactly supported continuous functions are either…
The linear superposition principle in quantum mechanics is essential for several no-go theorems such as the no-cloning theorem, the no-deleting theorem and the no-superposing theorem. It remains an open problem of finding general forbidden…
Further results are reported for the one-component quaternionic wave equation recently introduced. A Lagrangian is found for the momentum-space version of the free equation; and another, nonlocal in time, is found for the complete equation.…
A ubiquitous feature of quantum mechanical theories is the existence of states of superposition. This is expected to be no different for a quantum gravity theory. Guided by this consideration and others we consider a framework in which…
Light diffraction at an aperture is a basic problem that has generated a tremendous amount of interest in optics. Some of the most significant diffraction results are the Fresnel-Kirchhoff and Rayleigh-Sommerfeld formulas. These theories…