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We show that there exists an underlying manifold with a conformal metric and compatible connection form, and a metric type Hamiltonian (which we call the geometrical picture) that can be put into correspondence with the usual…

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This work presents a general geometric framework for simulating and learning the dynamics of Hamiltonian systems that are invariant under a Lie group of transformations. This means that a group of symmetries is known to act on the system…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-09-01 Miguel Vaquero , Jorge Cortés , David Martín de Diego

A universal algorithm to derive a macroscopic dynamics from the microscopic dynamical system via the averaging process and symplecto-contact reduction was introduced by Jin-wook Lim and the second-named author in [LO23]. They apply the…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-04-24 Hyun-Seok Do , Yong-Geun Oh

This thesis investigates geometric approaches to quantum hydrodynamics (QHD) in order to develop applications in theoretical quantum chemistry. Based upon the momentum map geometric structure of QHD and the associated Lie-Poisson and…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2020-09-30 Michael S. Foskett

Near Horizon Extremal Geometries (NHEG), are geometries which may appear in the near horizon region of the extremal black holes. These geometries have $SL(2,\mathbb{R})\!\times\!U(1)^n$ isometry, and constitute a family of solutions to the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-09-15 Kamal Hajian

Lagrangian multiform theory is a variational framework for integrable systems. In this article we introduce a new formulation which is based on symplectic geometry and which treats position, momentum and time coordinates of a…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-04-01 Vincent Caudrelier , Derek Harland

Using the formalism of geometrothermodynamics, we investigate the geometric properties of the equilibrium manifold for diverse thermodynamic systems. Starting from Legendre invariant metrics of the phase manifold, we derive thermodynamic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-03-28 H. Quevedo , A. Sanchez , S. Taj , A. Vazquez

In this paper we formulate a geometric theory of thermal stresses. Given a temperature distribution, we associate a Riemannian material manifold to the body, with a metric that explicitly depends on the temperature distribution. A change of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 Arkadas Ozakin , Arash Yavari

Quantum mechanics is among the most important and successful mathematical model for describing our physical reality. The traditional formulation of quantum mechanics is linear and algebraic. In contrast classical mechanics is a geometrical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-11-03 Hoshang Heydari

We elaborate on existing notions of contact geometry and Poisson geometry as applied to the classical ideal gas. Specifically we observe that it is possible to describe its dynamics using a 3-dimensional contact submanifold of the standard…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-04-04 P. Fernandez de Cordoba , J. M. Isidro

While the geometry of equilibrium states and driven non-equilibrium processes is clearly understood, a geometric description for relaxation towards equilibrium is still lacking. Here, we propose a thermo-geometric measure based on the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-04-17 Hao Wang , Li Zhao , Shuai Deng , Yu-Han Ma

Integrable Hamiltonian systems on symplectic manifolds have been well-studied. However, an intrinsic property of these kind of systems is that they can only live on even dimensional manifolds. To introduce a similar notion of integrability…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2023-05-08 Senne Ignoul

We present a review of the main aspects of geometrothermodynamics, an approach which allows us to associate a specific Riemannian structure to any classical thermodynamic system. In the space of equilibrium states, we consider a Legendre…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-04-11 Hernando Quevedo , Alejandro Vazquez

We describe geometrically contact Lagrangian systems under impulsive forces and constraints, as well as instantaneous nonholonomic constraints which are not uniform along the configuration space. In both situations, the vector field…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-01-24 Leonardo J. Colombo , Manuel de León , Asier López-Gordón

The nonequilibrium thermodynamics of an open (classical or quantum) system in strong contact with a single heat bath can be conveniently described in terms of the Hamiltonian of mean force. However, the conventional formulation is limited…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-05-20 Philipp Strasberg , Massimiliano Esposito

The variational method is very important in mathematical and theoretical physics because it allows us to describe the natural systems by physical quantities independently from the frame of reference used. A global and statistical approach…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-01-10 Umberto Lucia

In the present work, we discuss how the functional form of thermodynamic observables can be deduced from the geometric properties of subsets of phase space. The geometric quantities taken into account are mainly extrinsic curvatures of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-05-01 Ghofrane Bel-Hadj-Aissa , Matteo Gori , Vittorio Penna , Giulio Pettini , Roberto Franzosi

In this work we consider conformal gauge transformations of the geometric structure of thermodynamic fluctuation theory. In particular, we show that the Thermodynamic Phase Space is naturally endowed with a non-integrable connection,…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-09-04 A. Bravetti , C. S. Lopez-Monsalvo , F. Nettel

The manifold of pure quantum states is a complex projective space endowed with the unitary-invariant geometry of Fubini and Study. According to the principles of geometric quantum mechanics, the detailed physical characteristics of a given…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 Dorje C. Brody , Lane P. Hughston

We describe a method, based on "hard" contact topology, of showing the existence of semi-infinite trajectories of contact Hamiltonian flows which start on one Legendrian submanifold and asymptotically converge to another Legendrian…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-05-09 Michael Entov , Leonid Polterovich