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In this work, we study various properties of embedded hypersurfaces in $1+1+2$ decomposed spacetimes with a preferred spatial direction, denoted $e^{\mu}$, which are orthogonal to the fluid flow velocity of the spacetime and admit a proper…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-03-17 Abbas M. Sherif , Peter K. S. Dunsby

Motivated by well-known obstacles to quantum gravity, I look for the most general geometrodynamical symmetries compatible with a reduced physical configuration space for metric gravity. I argue that they lead either to a completely static…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-08-07 Henrique de A. Gomes

Dynamical realizations of the Lifshitz group are studied within the group-theoretic framework. A generalization of the 1d conformal mechanics is constructed, which involves an arbitrary dynamical exponent z. A similar generalization of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-06-08 Anton Galajinsky

In this work are computed analytical solutions for orbital motion on a background described by an Expanding Locally Anisotropic (ELA) metric ansatz. This metric interpolates between the Schwarzschild metric near the central mass and the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-11-07 P. Castelo Ferreira

The Dijkstra algorithm is a classic path planning method, which operates in a discrete graph space to determine the shortest path from a specified source point to a target node or all other nodes based on non-negative edge weights. Numerous…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-30 Yu Zhang , Xiao-Song Yang

In this paper, we present new results on the Riemannian geometry of symmetric positive semi-definite (SPSD) matrices. First, based on an existing approximation of the geodesic path, we introduce approximations of the logarithmic and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-05 Or Yair , Almog Lahav , Ronen Talmon

Let $G = (V,E)$ be an undirected graph with maximum degree $\Delta$ and vertex conductance $\Psi^*(G)$. We show that there exists a symmetric, stochastic matrix $P$, with off-diagonal entries supported on $E$, whose spectral gap…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-03-24 Vishesh Jain , Huy Tuan Pham , Thuy-Duong Vuong

Model merging offers a promising avenue for knowledge integration and parallel development without retraining. Yet, existing methods either ignore the geometry of the loss landscape or rely on intractable full-space Hessian approximations.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Juanwu Lu , Anand Bhaskar , Brian Axelrod , Ekaterina Tolstaya , Tristan Emrich

The quotient of the conformal group of Euclidean 4-space by its Weyl subgroup results in a geometry possessing many of the properties of relativistic phase space, including both a natural symplectic form and non-degenerate Killing metric.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-07-02 Jeffrey S Hazboun , James T Wheeler

We present a novel shape-approximating anisotropic re-meshing algorithm as a geometric generalization of the adaptive moving mesh method. Conventional moving mesh methods reduce the interpolation error of a mesh that discretizes a given…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Nicolas Nebel , Albert Chern

Deformation of any d-dimensional conformal field theory by a constant null source for a vector operator of dimension (d + z -1) is exactly marginal with respect to anisotropic scale invariance, of dynamical exponent z. The holographic duals…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-03-17 R. N. Caldeira Costa , Marika Taylor

We consider perturbations of a static and spherically symmetric background endowed with a metric tensor and a scalar field in the framework of the effective field theory of modified gravity. We employ the previously developed 2+1+1…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-12-09 Ryotaro Kase , László Árpád Gergely , Shinji Tsujikawa

Conformal field theories have been long known to describe the fascinating universal physics of scale invariant critical points. They describe continuous phase transitions in fluids, magnets, and numerous other materials, while at the same…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-04-18 David Poland , Slava Rychkov , Alessandro Vichi

Regression analysis for responses taking values in general metric spaces has received increasing attention, particularly for settings with Euclidean predictors $X \in \mathbb{R}^p$ and non-Euclidean responses $Y$ in metric spaces. While…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-12-16 Wookyeong Song , Hans-Georg Müller

In this article we focus on constructing a new family of spatially anisotropic Lifshitz spacetimes with arbitrary dynamical exponent z and constant negative curvature in d+1 dimensions within the framework of the Einstein-Proca theory. The…

Lattice field theory is a very powerful tool to study Feynman's path integral non-perturbatively. However, it usually requires Euclidean background metrics to be well-defined. On the other hand, a recently developed regularization scheme…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2022-08-18 Tobias Hartung , Karl Jansen , Chiara Sarti

We propose new optimal estimators for the Lipschitz frontier of a set of points. They are defined as kernel estimators being sufficiently regular, covering all the points and whose associated support is of smallest surface. The estimators…

Methodology · Statistics 2011-03-31 Stéphane Girard , Anatoli Iouditski , Alexander Nazin

The functorial mathematical definition of conformal field theory was first formulated approximately 30 years ago. The underlying geometric category is based on the moduli space of Riemann surfaces with parametrized boundary components and…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2017-06-09 David Radnell , Eric Schippers , Wolfgang Staubach

Understanding how systems built out of modular components can be jointly optimized is an important problem in biology, engineering, and machine learning. The backpropagation algorithm is one such solution and has been instrumental in the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Christian Pehle , Jean-Jacques Slotine

The problem of constructing gauge-invariant actions for conformal higher-spin fields in curved backgrounds is known to be notoriously difficult. In this paper we present gauge-invariant models for conformal maximal depth fields with spin…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-05-29 Sergei M. Kuzenko , Michael Ponds