English
Related papers

Related papers: Deriving Pi from Colliding Blocks

200 papers

A rigid object moving in a viscous fluid and in close proximity with an elastic wall experiences self-generated elastohydrodynamic interactions. This has been the subject of an intense research activity, with a recent and growing attention…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-07-04 Aditya Jha , Yacine Amarouchene , Thomas Salez

We study the dynamics of three particles in a finite interval, in which two light particles are separated by a heavy ``piston'', with elastic collisions between particles but inelastic collisions between the light particles and the interval…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 P. I. Hurtado , S. Redner

Let $P$ be a set of points and $L$ a set of lines in the (extended) Euclidean plane, and $I \subseteq P\times L$, where $i =(p,l) \in I$ means that point $p$ and line $l$ are incident. The incidences can be interpreted as quadratic…

We explain how to compute top-dimensional intersections of psi-classes on moduli spaces of m-stable curves. On the moduli spaces of Deligne-Mumford stable pointed curves of genus one, these intersection numbers are determined by two…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2018-08-29 David Ishii Smyth

Multiple orthogonal polynomials satisfy a number of recurrence relations, in particular there is a $(r+2)$-term recurrence relation connecting the type II multiple orthogonal polynomials near the diagonal (the so-called step-line recurrence…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2015-10-30 Galina Filipuk , Maciej Haneczok , Walter Van Assche

Impact of single particle onto a rigid substrate leads to its deformation and fragmentation. The flow associated with the particle spreading on a solid substrate after impact is extremely complicated. In this theoretical study a simplified…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-12-20 Ilia V. Roisman

We study collections of point masses which move freely along the real line and stick together when they collide via perfectly inelastic collisions. We quantify the way particles stick together and explain how to associate a probability…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-12-30 Ryan Hynd

Fourier series with power series coefficients for the normal and distance to a point from an ellipse are derived. These expressions are the first of their kind and opens up a range of analysis and computational possibilities.

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2025-07-15 John-Olof Nilsson

In this paper the number of ways to glue a surface of genus $g$ has been investigated. We've proven formulas for the number of gluings sphere from three polygons and from two bicolored polygons. Moreover, we've given a new proofs on the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-07-22 A. V. Pastor , O. P. Rodionova

A large-scale experiment was conducted to find formulas relating to the base $e^\pi$. The numbers in this base are $$x = \sum_{n=0}^\infty {a(n)\over e^{\pi n}}$$ where $a(n)$ is taken from the OEIS catalog. These experiments were inspired…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2025-09-22 Simon Plouffe

We describe double Hurwitz numbers as intersection numbers on the moduli space of curves. Assuming polynomiality of the Double Ramification Cycle (which is known in genera 0 and 1), our formula explains the polynomiality in chambers of…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2013-10-16 Renzo Cavalieri , Steffen Marcus

We study experimentally the collision between a sphere falling through a viscous fluid, and a solid plate below. It is known that there is a well-defined threshold Stokes number above which the sphere rebounds from such a collision. Our…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-04-18 Sumit Kumar Birwa , G. Rajalakshmi , Rama Govindarajan , Narayanan Menon

We calculate the optical diffraction radiation generated by a bunch of high energy particles as they pass through a round hole within an annular metallic ring. We derive expressions for the differential angular spectrum in the far-field and…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2008-08-29 Tanaji Sen

The Bell numbers count the number of different ways to partition a set of $n$ elements while the graphical Bell numbers count the number of non-equivalent partitions of the vertex set of a graph into stable sets. This relation between graph…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2024-03-11 Alain Hertz , Anaelle Hertz , Hadrien Mélot

Fibonacci numbers can be expressed in terms of multinomial coefficients as sums over integer partitions into odd parts. We use this fact to introduce a family of double inequalities involving the generating function for the number of…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2014-08-07 Cristina Ballantine , Mircea Merca

We give an asymptotic estimate for the number of partitions of a set of $n$ elements, whose block sizes avoid a given set $\mathcal{S}$ of natural numbers. As an application, we derive an estimate for the number of partitions of a set with…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-06-07 Joshua Culver , Andreas Weingartner

Based on the mathematical-physical model of pavement mechanics, a multilayer elastic system with interlayer friction conditions is constructed. Given the complex boundary conditions, the corresponding variational inequalities of the partial…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-06-04 Zhizhuo Zhang , Xiaobing Nie , Jinde Cao

In this short note we prove a formula for local heights on elliptic curves over number fields in terms of intersection theory on a regular model over the ring of integers.

Number Theory · Mathematics 2014-01-28 Vincenz Busch , Jan Steffen Müller

We define the block neighborhood of a reversible CA, which is related both to its decomposition into a product of block permutations and to quantum computing. We give a purely combinatorial characterization of the block neighborhood, which…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2010-12-30 Pablo Arrighi , Vincent Fabrice Nesme

We obtain a coarse relationship between geometric intersection numbers of curves and the sum of their subsurface projection distances with explicit quasi-constants. By using this relationship, we give applications in the studies of the…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2017-09-12 Yohsuke Watanabe