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The photon motion in a Michelson interferometer is re-analyzed in both geometrical optics and wave optics. The classical paths of the photons in the background of gravitational wave are derived from Fermat principle, which is the same as…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-12-22 Zhe Chang , Chao-Guang Huang , Zhi-Chao Zhao

This paper revisits the quantum mechanics for one photon from the modern viewpoint and by the geometrical method. Especially, besides the ordinary (rectangular) momentum representation, we provide an explicit derivation for the other two…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Yapeng Hu , Weigang Qiu , Hongbao Zhang

The manifold of empirical mean values of statistical data ad infinitum has a geometric shape that depends on the probability measure that governs the generating model. Large deviation theory produces entropy functions that depend on both…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Viswa Virinchi Muppirala , Hong Qian

The direct and inverse theorems are established for the best approximation in the weighted $L^p$ space on the unit sphere of $\RR^{d+1}$, in which the weight functions are invariant under finite reflection groups. The theorems are stated…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Yuan Xu

The geometrical diffraction theory, in the sense of Keller,is here reconsidered as an obstacle problem in the Riemannian geometry. The first result is the proof of the existence and the analysis of the main properties of the diffracted…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Enrico De Micheli , Giacomo Monti Bragadin , Giovanni Alberto Viano

We apply the Thermal Field Theory methods to study the propagation of photons in a plasma layer, that is a plasma in which the electrons are confined to a two-dimensional plane sheet. We calculate the photon self-energy and determine the…

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This paper develops second variational formulas and index forms in the context of Hermitian geometry. Building upon these analytical foundations, we establish results analogous to classical theorems in Riemannian geometry, including Myers'…

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Hodge theory is a beautiful synthesis of geometry, topology, and analysis, which has been developed in the setting of Riemannian manifolds. On the other hand, spaces of images, which are important in the mathematical foundations of vision…

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The goal of inversion is to estimate the model which generates the data of observations with a specific modeling equation. One general approach to inversion is to use optimization methods which are algebraic in nature to define an objective…

Geophysics · Physics 2015-06-02 August Lau , Chuan Yin

This paper introduces a new method to stylize 3D geometry. The key observation is that the surface normal is an effective instrument to capture different geometric styles. Centered around this observation, we cast stylization as a shape…

Graphics · Computer Science 2021-07-13 Hsueh-Ti Derek Liu , Alec Jacobson

Spherical symmetry arguments are used to produce a general device to convert identities and inequalities for the $p$th absolute moments of real-valued random variables into the corresponding identities and inequalities for the $p$th moments…

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The article explores optical properties of nanostructures containing spherical gold nanoparticles of various radii. We explore the particle radius as a criterion to select a permittivity model aimed at describing optical absorption spectra…

For a plane symmetric object we can find two views - mirrored at the plane of symmetry - that will yield the exact same image of that object. In consequence, having one image of a plane symmetric object and a calibrated camera, we can…

Most of the work on checking spherical symmetry assumptions on the distribution of the $p$-dimensional random vector $Y$ has its focus on statistical tests for the null hypothesis of exact spherical symmetry. In this paper, we take a…

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We show how a quantum optical measurement scheme based on heterodyne detection can be used to explore geometrical and topological properties of condensed matter systems. Considering a 2D material placed in a cavity with a coupling to the…

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The deformation principle admits one to obtain a very broad class of nonuniform geometries as a result of deformation of the proper Euclidean geometry. The Riemannian geometry is also obtained by means of a deformation of the Euclidean…

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Distance measuring is a very important task in digital geometry and digital image processing. Due to our natural approach to geometry we think of the set of points that are equally far from a given point as a Euclidean circle. Using the…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2010-06-18 Janos Farkas , Szabolcs Bajak , Benedek Nagy

We provide a geometric interpretation to Bayesian inference that allows us to introduce a natural measure of the level of agreement between priors, likelihoods, and posteriors. The starting point for the construction of our geometry is the…

Methodology · Statistics 2018-05-24 Miguel de Carvalho , Garritt L. Page , Bradley J. Barney

Geometrical optics provides an instructive insight into Brownian motion, ``pushed" into a large-deviations regime by imposed constraints. Here we extend geometrical optics of Brownian motion by accounting for diffusion inhomogeneity in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-09-26 Tal Bar , Baruch Meerson