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This article provides a self-contained pedagogical introduction to the relativistic kinetic theory of a dilute gas propagating on a curved spacetime manifold (M,g) of arbitrary dimension. Special emphasis is made on geometric aspects of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-03-09 Rubén O. Acuña-Cárdenas , Carlos Gabarrete , Olivier Sarbach

Real-world physical systems, like composite materials and porous media, exhibit complex heterogeneities and multiscale nature, posing significant computational challenges. Computational homogenization is useful for predicting macroscopic…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2024-07-29 Yuki Sato , Yuto Lewis Terashima , Ruho Kondo

This note provides a succinct proof of a 1973 theorem of Lieb that establishes the concavity of a certain trace function. The development relies on a deep result from quantum information theory, the joint convexity of quantum relative…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-04-29 Joel A. Tropp

Tightness is a generalisation of the notion of convexity: a space is tight if and only if it is "as convex as possible", given its topological constraints. For a simplicial complex, deciding tightness has a straightforward exponential time…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2018-10-24 Bhaskar Bagchi , Benjamin A. Burton , Basudeb Datta , Nitin Singh , Jonathan Spreer

The concept of uniform tangent sets was introduced and discussed in [3 - Krastanov, Ribarska, SIAM J. Control Optim., 55(3), 2017]. This study is devoted to their further investigation and to generalization of the abstract Lagrange…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-12-06 Mira Bivas , Nadezhda Ribarska , Mladen Valkov

An extension to the interface finite element with eMbedded Profile for Joint Roughness (MPJR interface finite element) is herein proposed for solving the frictional contact problem between a rigid indenter of any complex shape and an…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-04-03 Jacopo Bonari , Marco Paggi , José Reinoso

In this article, we present a novel approach to investigating entanglement in the context of quantum computing. Our methodology involves analyzing reduced density matrices at different stages of a quantum algorithm's execution and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-14 Ruge Lin

The complex Langevin method (CLM) provides a promising way to perform the path integral with a complex action using a stochastic equation for complexified dynamical variables. It is known, however, that the method gives wrong results in…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2016-12-01 Shinji Shimasaki , Keitaro Nagata , Jun Nishimura

Let $\gamma_0$ be a curve on a surface $\Sigma$ of genus $g$ and with $r$ boundary components and let $\pi_1(\Sigma)\curvearrowright X$ be a discrete and cocompact action on some metric space. We study the asymptotic behavior of the number…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2016-12-23 Viveka Erlandsson , Hugo Parlier , Juan Souto

The paper reports the recent results on application and extension of the matrix formulation of lagrangian hydrodynamic equations. The matrix approach is based on the notion of continuous deformation of infinitesimal material elements and…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 E. I. Yakubovich , D. A. Zenkovich

We introduce a new criterion which tests if a given decomposition of a given ternary form $T$ of even degree is unique. The criterion is based on the analysis of the Hilbert function of the projective set of points $Z$ associated to the…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2020-07-21 Andrea Mazzon

Regression splines are smooth, flexible, and parsimonious nonparametric function estimators. They are known to be sensitive to knot number and placement, but if assumptions such as monotonicity or convexity may be imposed on the regression…

Applications · Statistics 2008-11-12 Mary C. Meyer

In the present paper, we study transport properties of coherent vortices. These structures are formed by tubes of fluid parcels that complete similar material rotation. Here, we demonstrate that time $t_0$ positions of such physical…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-12-16 Anass El Aouni , Arthur Vidard

A new version of the convexification method is developed analytically and tested numerically for a 1-D coefficient inverse problem in the frequency domain. Unlike the previous version, this one does not use the so-called "tail function",…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-10-17 Michael V. Klibanov , Aleksandr E. Kolesov , Anders Sullivan , Lam Nguyen

Following our joint work arXiv:1003.4578 with Robert Langlands, we make the first steps toward developing geometric methods for analyzing trace formulas in the case of the function field of a curve defined over a finite field. We also…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2015-03-17 Edward Frenkel , Ngo Bao Chau

Recently, Connelly and Gortler gave a novel proof of the circle packing theorem for tangency packings by introducing a hybrid combinatorial-geometric operation, flip-and-flow, that allows two tangency packings whose contact graphs differ by…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2020-07-07 John C. Bowers

Lagrange geometry is the geometry of the tensor field defined by the fiberwise Hessian of a non degenerate Lagrangian function on the total space of a tangent bundle. Finsler geometry is the geometrically most interesting case of Lagrange…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Izu Vaisman

We review our new method, which might be the most direct and efficient way for approaching the continuum physics from Hamiltonian lattice gauge theory. It consists of solving the eigenvalue equation with a truncation scheme preserving the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-26 S. H. Guo , Q. Z. Chen , X. Fang , J. Liu , X. Q. Luo , W. Zheng

We solve a randomized version of the following open question: is there a strictly convex, bounded curve \gamma in the plane such that the number of rational points on \gamma, with denominator $n$, approaches infinity with $n$? Although this…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2019-02-20 Nick Gravin , Fedor Petrov , Sinai Robins , Dmitry Shiryaev

Considering an extension of the principle of covarience to the action along a path in relativistic Lagrangian mechanics, we motivate the use of geometric -- i.e. covariant and parameter invariant -- Lagrangian functions. We then study some…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-07-26 Olivier Brunet