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With the rise of modern deep learning, neural networks have become an essential part of virtually every artificial intelligence system, making it difficult even to imagine different models for intelligent behavior. In contrast, nature…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Alican Mertan , Nick Cheney

We present a comprehensive study on discrete morphological symmetries of dynamical systems, which are commonly observed in biological and artificial locomoting systems, such as legged, swimming, and flying animals/robots/virtual characters.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-07-27 Daniel Ordonez-Apraez , Mario Martin , Antonio Agudo , Francesc Moreno-Noguer

To study discrete dynamical systems of different types --- deterministic, statistical and quantum --- we develop various approaches. We introduce the concept of a system of discrete relations on an abstract simplicial complex and develop…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2010-11-10 Vladimir V. Kornyak

Motions carry information about the underlying task being executed. Previous work in human motion analysis suggests that complex motions may result from the composition of fundamental submovements called movemes. The existence of finite…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-12-10 Thomas A. Berrueta , Ana Pervan , Kathleen Fitzsimons , Todd D. Murphey

We provide abelianizations of differentiable actions of finite groups on smooth real manifolds. De Concini-Procesi wonderful models for (local) subspace arrangements and a careful analysis of linear actions on real vector spaces are at the…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Eva Maria Feichtner , Dmitry N. Kozlov

This paper proposes a methodology to stabilize relative equilibria in a model of identical, steered particles moving in three-dimensional Euclidean space. Exploiting the Lie group structure of the resulting dynamical system, the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2008-06-23 Luca Scardovi , Naomi Leonard , Rodolphe Sepulchre

We consider the quantum version of Arnold's generalisation of a rigid body in classical mechanics. Thus, we quantise the motion on an arbitrary Lie group manifold of a particle whose classical trajectories correspond to the geodesics of any…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-05-04 Ben Gripaios , Dave Sutherland

The problems encountered in trying to quantize the various cosmological models, are brought forward by means of a concrete example. The Automorphism groups are revealed as the key element through which G.C.T.'s can be used for a general…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-07-19 T. Christodoulakis

Representing videos by densely extracted local space-time features has recently become a popular approach for analysing actions. In this paper, we tackle the problem of categorising human actions by devising Bag of Words (BoW) models based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-07-08 Masoud Faraki , Maziar Palhang , Conrad Sanderson

The formal structure of the early Einstein's Special Relativity follows the axiomatic deductive method of Euclidean geometry. In this paper we show the deep-rooted relation between Euclidean and space-time geometries that are both linked to…

Classical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Dino Boccaletti , Francesco Catoni , Vincenzo Catoni

We study the multichannel scattering in the classical three-body system and show that the problem can be formulated as a motion of the point mass on a curved hyper-surface of the energy of the body-system. It is proved that the local…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-12-08 Ashot S. Gevorkyan

Classical mathematical techniques such as discrete integration, gradient descent optimization, and state estimation (exemplified by the Runge-Kutta method, Gauss-Newton minimization, and extended Kalman filter or EKF, respectively), rely on…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Eduardo Gallo

We study the problem of determining optimal coordinated motions for two disc robots in an otherwise obstacle-free plane. Using the total path length traced by the two disc centres as a measure of distance, we give an exact characterization…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2017-01-23 David Kirkpatrick , Paul Liu

We consider discretizations of the Einstein action of general relativity such that the resulting discrete equations of motion form a consistent constrained system. Upon ``spin foam'' quantization of the system, consistency allows a natural…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Rodolfo Gambini , Jorge Pullin

Groupoidification is a form of categorification in which vector spaces are replaced by groupoids, and linear operators are replaced by spans of groupoids. We introduce this idea with a detailed exposition of 'degroupoidification': a…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2009-09-29 John C. Baez , Alexander E. Hoffnung , Christopher D. Walker

In this paper, we derive equations of motion for the normal-order, the symmetric-order and the antinormal-order quantum characteristic functions, applicable for general Hamiltonian systems. We do this by utilizing the `characteristic form'…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-05-02 Itay Hen , Amir Kalev

We define a set of operations called crystal operations on matrices with entries either in {0,1} or in N. There are horizontal and vertical crystal operations, giving rise to two commuting structures of a crystal graph on these matrices.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Marc A. A. van Leeuwen

Dynamic mode (DM) decomposition decomposes spatiotemporal signals into basic oscillatory components (DMs). DMs can improve the accuracy of neural decoding when used with the nonlinear Grassmann kernel, compared to conventional power…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-09 Ryohei Fukuma , Kei Majima , Yoshinobu Kawahara , Okito Yamashita , Yoshiyuki Shiraishi , Haruhiko Kishima , Takufumi Yanagisawa

The regularization of a new problem, namely the three-body problem, using 'similar' coordinate system is proposed. For this purpose we use the relation of 'similarity', which has been introduced as an equivalence relation in a previous…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2011-10-31 Rodica Roman , Iharka Szucs-Csillik