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Physical systems with symmetry arise abundantly in applications, and are endowed with interesting mathematical structures. The present paper focusses on linear reciprocal and input-output Hamiltonian systems. Their characterization is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-07 Arjan van der Schaft , Rodolphe Sepulchre , Tom Chaffey

Hamiltonians which are inaccessible in static systems can be engineered in periodically driven many-body systems, i.e., Floquet many-body systems. We propose to use interacting particles in a one-dimensional (1D) harmonic potential with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-02-19 Pengfei Liang , Michael Marthaler , Lingzhen Guo

Lagrangian multiform theory is a variational framework for integrable systems. In this article we introduce a new formulation which is based on symplectic geometry and which treats position, momentum and time coordinates of a…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-04-01 Vincent Caudrelier , Derek Harland

The thermodynamic equilibrium conditions for compact structures composed by mass varying particles are discussed assuming that the so-called dynamical mass behaves like an additional extensive thermodynamic degree of freedom. It then…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-06-07 Alex E. Bernardini , O. Bertolami

We propose a symplectic structure for the phase space of a generic Lagrangian field theory expressed in the framework of $L_\infty$ algebras. The symplectic structure does not require explicit knowledge of the derivative content of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-09-08 Vinícius Bernardes , Theodore Erler , Atakan Hilmi Fırat

We present a systematic and consistent construction of geometrothermodynamics by using Riemannian contact geometry for the phase manifold and harmonic maps for the equilibrium manifold. We present several metrics for the phase manifold that…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-20 Hernando Quevedo , Alberto Sanchez , Safia Taj , Alejandro Vazquez

Interactions in complex systems are widely observed across various fields, drawing increased attention from researchers. In mathematics, efforts are made to develop various theories and methods for studying the interactions between spaces.…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2023-11-29 Jian Liu , Dong Chen , Guo-Wei Wei

The paper gives a symplectic-geometric account of semiclassical Gaussian wave packet dynamics. We employ geometric techniques to "strip away" the symplectic structure behind the time-dependent Schr\"odinger equation and incorporate it into…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-09-20 Tomoki Ohsawa , Melvin Leok

For 1D Hamiltonian systems with periodic solutions, Helmholtz formalism provides a tantalizing interpretation of classical thermodynamics, based on time integrals of purely mechanical quantities and without need of statistical description.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-02-28 Amilcare Porporato , Lamberto Rondoni

We consider some classical fibre bundles furnished with almost complex structures of twistor type, deduce their integrability in some cases and study \textit{self-holomorphic} sections of a \textit{symplectic} twistor space. With these we…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-12-15 Rui Albuquerque

In this paper, a dynamical process in a statistical thermodynamic system of spins exhibiting a phase transition is described on a contact manifold, where such a dynamical process is a process that a metastable equilibrium state evolves into…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2022-06-14 Shin-itiro Goto

We construct new families of symplectic capacities indexed by certain symmetric polynomials, defined using rational symplectic field theory. In particular, we introduce a sequence of capacities based on an L-infinity structure on linearized…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-12-24 Kyler Siegel

Positive-energy solutions of the Klein-Gordon equation form a Hilbert space of holomorphic functions on the future tube. This domain is interpreted as an extended phase space for the associated classical particle, the extra dimensions being…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-05-23 Gerald Kaiser

Standandard Hamiltonian mechanics in its homogeneous formulation is applied to the study of discontinuities representing rapid changes of Hamiltonians. Different formulations of Hamiltonian mechanics are reviewed. An original representation…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Wlodzimierz M. Tulczyjew

A multiscale theory of interacting continuum mechanics and thermodynamics of mixtures of fluids, electrodynamics, polarization and magnetization is proposed. The mechanical (reversible) part of the theory is constructed in a purely…

Classical Physics · Physics 2020-08-26 Petr Vagner , Michal Pavelka , Ogul Esen

Dirac structures are geometric objects that generalize both Poisson structures and presymplectic structures on manifolds. They naturally appear in the formulation of constrained mechanical systems. In this paper, we show that the evolution…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-02-14 François Gay-Balmaz , Hiroaki Yoshimura

Charges associated with gauge symmetries are defined on boundaries of spacetimes. But these constructions typically involve divergent quantities when considering asymptotic boundaries. Different prescriptions exist to address this problem,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-01-07 Robert McNees , Céline Zwikel

Evolution of systems in which Hamiltonians are generators of gauge transformations is a notion that requires more structure than the canonical theory provides. We identify and study this additional structure in the framework of relational…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-10-30 Andrea Dapor , Wojciech Kamiński , Jerzy Lewandowski , Jedrzej Świeżewski

We show that, when we study the coexistence of general relativity with thermodynamics, some physical properties that are usually thought of as holographic and lying in the domain of quantum gravity can actually be accessed even at the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-15 Ntina Savvidou , C. Anastopoulos

This work deals with the physical system governed by a Hamiltonian operator, in two-dimensional space, of spinless charged particles subject to a perpendicular magnetic field B, coupled with a harmonic potential in the context of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-04-30 Bienvenu Gnim Adewi , Isiaka Aremua , Laure Gouba