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Path integrals are a central tool when it comes to describing quantum or thermal fluctuations of particles or fields. Their success dates back to Feynman who showed how to use them within the framework of quantum mechanics. Since then, path…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-08-31 Leticia F. Cugliandolo , Vivien Lecomte , Frédéric Van Wijland

Optimal transport provides a powerful framework for comparing measures while respecting the geometry of their support, but comes with an expensive computational cost, hindering its potential application to real world use cases. On…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Pierre Houédry , Iskander Legheraba , Léo Buecher , Nicolas Courty

We develop the idea that, as a result of the arbitrariness of the factor ordering in Wheeler-DeWitt equation, gauge phases can not, in general, being completely removed from the wave functional in quantum gravity. The latter may be…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-09-09 Jose-Luis Rosales

Let us consider a time-dependent differential operator quadratic with respect to the phase variables. Let us consider a multiplication operator defined with the help of a "small" matrix-valued function. Under suitable conditions, we give an…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-02-08 Thierry Harge

We develop an \textit{a posteriori} error analysis for a numerical estimate of the time at which a functional of the solution to a partial differential equation (PDE) first achieves a threshold value on a given time interval. This quantity…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-06-09 Jehanzeb Chaudhry , Don Estep , Trevor Giannini , Zachary Stevens , Simon Tavener

In this work we consider the Keller-Segel model for chemotaxis on networks, both in the doubly parabolic case and in the parabolic-elliptic one. Introducing appropriate transition conditions at vertices, we prove the existence of a time…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-11-24 Fabio Camilli , Lucilla Corrias

In this survey article, we review the relation between heat kernels and path integrals. In particular, we review recent results on the approximation of the Wiener measure on compact manifold by measures on (finite-dimensional) spaces of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-10-19 Matthias Ludewig

The emergence of time in the matter-gravity system is addressed within the context of the inflationary paradigm. A quantum minisuperspace-homogeneous minimally coupled inflaton system is studied with suitable initial conditions leading to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 A. Tronconi , G. P. Vacca , G. Venturi

Canonical quantization applied to closed systems leads to static equations, the Wheeler-deWitt equation in Quantum Gravity and the time independent Schr\"odinger equation in Quantum Mechanics. How to restore time is the Problem of Time(s).…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-01-21 M. Bauer , C. A. Aguillón

This paper provides a general framework for deriving effective material properties of one-dimensional, time-modulated systems of subwavelength resonators. It applies to subwavelength resonator systems with a general form of time-dependent…

Optics · Physics 2025-07-17 Habib Ammari , Jinghao Cao , Erik Orvehed Hiltunen , Liora Rueff

We give an overview of the applications of noncommutative geometry to physics. Our focus is entirely on the conceptual ideas, rather than on the underlying technicalities. Starting historically from the Heisenberg relations, we will explain…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-05-30 Ali H. Chamseddine , Alain Connes , Walter D. van Suijlekom

The most powerful form of quantum learning system possible would somehow learn the parameters W of a quantum system f(X, W), for f representing the largest, most powerful set of possible input-output relations. This paper addresses the…

Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-01-05 Paul J. Werbos

Coupled nonlinear Schr\"odinger equations model various physical phenomena, such as wave propagation in nonlinear optics, multi-component Bose-Einstein condensates, and shallow water waves. Despite their extensive applications, analytical…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-07-29 Nate Lovett , Harish Bhatt

A discussion is given of the conformal Einstein field equations coupled with matter whose energy-momentum tensor is trace-free. These resulting equations are expressed in terms of a generic Weyl connection. The article shows how in the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-27 Christian Lübbe , Juan Antonio Valiente Kroon

We consider the Cauchy problem for semi-linear heat equations with exponential nonlinearity. The main purpose of this paper is to prove the existence of solutions lying on the borderline between global existence and blow-up infinite time.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-12-15 Daesu Jeong

A lot of work has been devoted in the past to understand the role of vertical branch of the time path in thermal field theories, and in particular to see how to deal with it in the real-time formalism. Unlike what is commonly believed, I…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 Francois Gelis

This work presents a numerical investigation of different approximation techniques for the temporal weights used in the Dual Weighted Residual (DWR) method applied to a time-dependent convection-diffusion equation which is assumed to be…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-07-19 Marius Paul Bruchhäuser , Markus Bause

This paper studies the sampling observability for the heat equations with memory in the lower-order term, where the observation is conducted at a finite number of time instants and on a small open subset at each time instant. We present a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-11-22 Lingying Ma , Gengsheng Wang , Yubiao Zhang

Time continues to be an intriguing physical property in the modern era. On the one hand, we have the Classical and Relativistic notion of time, where space and time have the same hierarchy, which is essential in describing events in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-12-29 Arlans JS de Lara , Marcus W Beims

We present an ab initio approach to solve the time-dependent Schr\"odinger equation to treat electron and photon impact multiple ionization of atoms or molecules. It combines the already known time scaled coordinate method with a new high…