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We pursue applications of the light-front reduction of current matrix elements in the Bethe-Salpeter formalism. The normalization of the reduced wave function is derived from the covariant framework and related to non-valence probabilities…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-07 B. C. Tiburzi , G. A. Miller

We start with formulation of the generalized Fermat's principle for light propagation in a curved spacetime. We apply Pontryagin's minimum principle of the optimal control theory and obtain an effective Hamiltonian for null geodesics in a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-16 Valeri P. Frolov

The goal of this paper is to study approaches to bridge the gap between first-order and second-order type methods for composite convex programs. Our key observations are: i) Many well-known operator splitting methods, such as…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-09-27 Xiantao Xiao , Yongfeng Li , Zaiwen Wen , Liwei Zhang

Radiative transfer in curved spacetimes has become increasingly important to understanding high-energy astrophysical phenomena and testing general relativity in the strong field limit. The equations of radiative transfer are physically…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Avery E. Broderick

The Schrodinger motion of a charged quantum particle in an electromagnetic potential can be simulated by the paraxial dynamics of photons propagating through a spatially inhomogeneous medium. The inhomogeneity induces geometric effects that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-12-29 K. -P. Marzlin , Juergen Appel , A. I. Lvovsky

Given a specific spectra of the single-particle reduced density matrices of three qubits, the singular symplectic reduction method is applied to the projective Hilbert space of tripartite pure states, under the local unitary group action.…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2012-11-07 Saeid Molladavoudi

In this paper we prove a number of exact relations between optical observables, such as trigonometric parallax, position drift and the proper motion of a luminous source in addition to the variations of redshift and the viewing angle. These…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-13 Mikołaj Korzyński , Nezihe Uzun

Consider a Hodge manifold and assume that a torus acts on it in a Hamiltonian and holomorphic manner and that this action linearizes on a given quantizing line bundle. Inside the dual of the line bundle one can define the circle bundle,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-08-09 Andrea Galasso

The transport equations for polarized radiation transfer in non-Riemannian, Weyl-Cartan type space-times are derived, with the effects of both torsion and non-metricity included. To obtain the basic propagation equations we use the tangent…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 K. S. Cheng , T. Harko , X. Y. Wang

In the paper we study propagation of light in general relativity through a spacetime filled with cold plasma with infinite conductivity. We use the geometric optics based on Synge's approach. As the main result we provide a formula for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-09-03 Matej Sárený

In this work we report on using light-front dynamics to describe generalized parton distributions, which are correlation functions encountered in virtual Compton scattering at large momentum transfer. This two photon process requires pair…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 B. C. Tiburzi

Analytical expressions are derived for the distribution rates of spatial coincidences in the counting of photons produced by spontaneous parametric down conversion (SPDC). Gaussian profiles are assumed for the wave function of the idler and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-05-05 Lorenzo M. Procopio , Oscar Rosas-Ortiz , Victor Velazquez

In this article, we propose a new dimensionality-independent and gradient-free sampler, called Geometric Optics Approximation Sampling, which is based on the reflector antenna system. The core idea is to construct a reflecting surface that…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-11-18 Zejun Sun , Guang-Hui Zheng

In this paper we study the structure of the phase space in noncommutative geometry in the presence of a nontrivial frame. Our basic assumptions are that the underlying space is a symplectic and parallelizable manifold. Furthermore, we…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-08-04 Athanasios Chatzistavrakidis

We extend the formalism of asymmetric frames of reference for generalized parton distributions (GPDs) to the case of nonzero skewness, i.e., including longitudinal momentum transfer. The framework, based on Lorentz-invariant amplitudes and…

In this study, we provide a novel wave packet propagation method that generalizes the Hagedorn approach by introducing alternative primitive basis sets that are better suited to describe different physical processes. More precisely, in our…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-08-27 Rabiou Issa , Kokou Mawulonmi Robert Afansounoudji , Komi Sodoga , David Lauvergnat

Inspired by the recent developments in modeling and analysis of reaction networks, we provide a geometric formulation of the reversible reaction networks under the influence of diffusion. Using the graph knowledge of the underlying reaction…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2012-12-21 Marko Seslija , Arjan van der Schaft , Jacquelien M. A. Scherpen

A Hamiltonian reduction approach is defined, studied, and finally used to derive asymptotic models of internal wave propagation in density stratified fluids in two-dimensional domains. Beginning with the general Hamiltonian formalism of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-07-26 R. Camassa , G. Falqui , G. Ortenzi , M. Pedroni , T. T. Vu Ho

In this paper, we extend the paraxial conical refraction model to the case of the partially coherent light using the unified optical coherence theory. We demonstrate the decomposition of conical refraction correlation functions into…

Optics · Physics 2022-05-12 V. Yu. Mylnikov , V. V. Dudelev , E. U. Rafailov , G. S. Sokolovskii

The aim of this note is to present some new explicit examples of $O(d,d)$-generalised Leibniz parallelisable spaces arising as the normal bundles of adjoint orbits $\mathcal{O}$ of some semi-simple Lie group $G$. Using this construction, an…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-10-11 Louise Anderson