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We consider a general two-dimensional gravity model minimally or nonminimally coupled to a scalar field. The canonical form of the model is elucidated, and a general solution of the equations of motion in the massless case is reviewed. In…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 M. O. Katanaev

Learning a causal directed acyclic graph from data is a challenging task that involves solving a combinatorial problem for which the solution is not always identifiable. A new line of work reformulates this problem as a continuous…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-05 Philippe Brouillard , Sébastien Lachapelle , Alexandre Lacoste , Simon Lacoste-Julien , Alexandre Drouin

A generalization of the pseudoclassical action of a spinning particle in the presence of an anomalous magnetic moment is given. The leading considerations, to write the action, are gotten from the path integral representation for the causal…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-04-06 D. M. Gitman , A. V. Saa

In this paper we will explore two different proposals for the action for causal sets: the Benincasa-Dowker action and a modified version of the chain action. We propose a variational principle for two-dimensional causal sets and use it for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-06-09 Luca Bombelli , B. B. Pilgrim

Shortcomings of Dirac's constrained analysis in the context of fourth order Pais-Uhlenbeck oscillator action and the appearance of badly affected phase-space Hamiltonian for a generalized fourth order oscillator action, following…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-09-08 Kaushik Sarkar , Nayem Sk , Ranajit Mandal , Abhik Kumar Sanyal

We construct an effective Lagrangian for low energy hadronic interactions through an infinite expansion in inverse powers of the low energy cutoff $\Lambda_\chi$ of all possible chiral invariant non-renormalizable interactions between…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-28 E. Pallante , R. Petronzio

In nonlinear electrodynamics, by implementing the causality principle as the requirement that the group velocity of elementary excitations over a background field should not exceed the speed of light in the vacuum and the unitarity…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-05-13 Anatoly E. Shabad , Vladimir V. Usov

A relativistic equation is deduced for the bound state of two particles, by assuming a proper boundary condition for the propagation of the negative-energy states. It reduces to the (one-body)Dirac equation in the infinite limit of one of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Hitoshi Ito

In this paper, we discuss the boundedness of the fractional type Marcinkiewicz integral operators associated to surfaces, and extend a result given by Chen, Fan and Ying in 2002. They showed that under certain conditions the fractional type…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2013-05-30 Yoshihiro Sawano , Kôzô Yabuta

Mathematical justifications are given for several integral and series representations of the Dirac delta function which appear in the physics literature. These include integrals of products of Airy functions, and of Coulomb wave functions;…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2013-03-11 Y. T. Li , R. Wong

The Hamilton action principle, also known as the principle of least action, and Lagrange equations are an integral part of advanced undergraduate mechanics. At present, substantial efforts are ongoing to suitably incorporate the action…

Classical Physics · Physics 2010-12-02 Yogesh N. Joglekar , Weng Kian Tham

We prove a generalized version of the $3G$ Principle for Green's functions on bounded inner uniform domains in a wide class of Dirichlet spaces. In particular, our results apply to higher-dimensional fractals such as Sierpinski carpets in…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-12-30 Anthony Graves-McCleary , Laurent Saloff-Coste

To solve the path integral for quantum gravity, one needs to regularise the space-times that are summed over. This regularisation usually is a discretisation, which makes it necessary to give up some paradigms or symmetries of continuum…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-09-30 Lisa Glaser

The extended guiding-center Lagrangian equations of motion are derived by Lie-transform method under the assumption of time-dependent and inhomogeneous electric and magnetic fields that satisfy the standard guiding-center orderings for…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-01-09 Alain J. Brizard

We give a proper fractional extension of the classical calculus of variations by considering variational functionals with a Lagrangian depending on a combined Caputo fractional derivative and the classical derivative. Euler-Lagrange…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2011-11-11 Tatiana Odzijewicz , Agnieszka B. Malinowska , Delfim F. M. Torres

We study the Dirichlet problem for functions whose graphs are spacelike hypersurfaces with prescribed curvature in the Minkowski space and we obtain some new interior second order estimates for admissible solutions to the corresponding…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-07-25 Bin Wang

We propose a manifestly Lorentz covariant, non-commutative Dirac equation for charged particles interacting with an electromagnetic field. The equation is formulated on the operator level, but operators are not composed through the normal…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-09-05 P. H. Williams , F. G. Scholtz

The fractional quantization of singular systems with second order Lagrangian is examined. The fractional singular Lagrangian is presented. The equations of motion are written as total differential equations within fractional calculus. Also,…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2025-04-29 Eyad Hasan Hasan , Osama Abdalla Abu-Haija

General formula for causal Green's function of linear differential operator of given degree in one variable is given according to coefficient functions of differential operator as a series of integrals. The solution also provides analytic…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2013-04-16 Adel Kassaian

We first note that, at least in perturbation theory, there is a well-defined (subject to regularization) Lorentzian definition of the quantum effective action in both flat and curved space including (perturbative) gravity. The advantage of…

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