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The metaplectic covariance for all forms of the Weyl-Wigner-Groenewold-Moyal quantization is established with different realizations of the inhomogeneous symplectic algebra. Beyond that, in its most general form $W_{\infty}$ -covariance of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 A. Vercin

The integral method can be used to model accurately flows down an inclined plane. Such a method consists in projecting the full 3D equations on a lower dimensional representation. The vertical velocity profiles have their functional form…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Fourrière , P. Claudin , B. Andreotti

We investigate the warm inflationary scenario in the Weyl geometric gravity theory, in which the action is constructed by adding matter to the simplest conformally invariant gravitational action in Weyl geometry. The $\tilde{R}^2$ theory…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-19 Runhua Huang , Tiberiu Harko , Shi-Dong Liang , Hong-Hao Zhang , Lei Ming

We study $n$-dimensional K\"ahler manifolds whose geodesic flows possess $n$ first integrals in involution that are fibrewise hermitian forms and simultaneously normalizable. Under some mild assumption, one can associate with such a…

dg-ga · Mathematics 2008-02-03 Kazuyoshi Kiyohara

Information geometry and inductive inference methods can be used to model dynamical systems in terms of their probabilistic description on curved statistical manifolds. In this article, we present a formal conceptual reexamination of the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2010-11-29 C. Cafaro , A. Giffin , S. A. Ali , D. -H. Kim

The gradient-flow dynamics of an arbitrary geometric quantity is derived using a generalization of Darcy's Law. We consider flows in both Lagrangian and Eulerian formulations. The Lagrangian formulation includes a dissipative modification…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2008-04-28 Darryl D. Holm , Vakhtang Putkaradze , Cesare Tronci

We give a review of the systematic construction of hierarchies of soliton flows and integrable elliptic equations associated to a complex semi-simple Lie algebra and finite order automorphisms. For example, the non-linear Schr\"odinger…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Chuu-Lian Terng

Basic quantities related to 2-D gravity, such as Polyakov extrinsic action, Nambu-Goto action, geometrical action, and Euler characteristic are studied using generalized Weierstrass-Enneper (GWE) inducing of surfaces. Connection of the GWE…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-28 Robert Carroll , Boris Konopelchenko

A general scheme for determining and studying integrable deformations of algebraic curves is presented. The method is illustrated with the analysis of the hyperelliptic case. An associated multi-Hamiltonian hierarchy of systems of…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2009-11-10 B. Konopelchenko , L. Martinez Alonso

The paper is a survey of some results about Weil algebras applicable in differential geometry, especially in some classification questions on bundles of generalized velocities and contact elements. Mainly, a number of claims concerning a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2010-11-11 Miroslav Kureš

We revisit the classical problem due to Weyl, as well as its generalisations, concerning the isometric immersions of $\mathbb{S}^2$ into simply-connected $3$-dimensional Riemannian manifolds with non-negative Gauss curvature. A sufficient…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-02-24 Siran Li

Algebras of generalized functions offer possibilities beyond the purely distributional approach in modelling singular quantities in non-smooth differential geometry. This article presents an introductory survey of recent developments in…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Michael Kunzinger

The Euler equation of an ideal (i.e. inviscid incompressible) fluid can be regarded, following V.Arnold, as the geodesic flow of the right-invariant $L^2$-metric on the group of volume-preserving diffeomorphisms of the flow domain. In this…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-10-16 Anton Izosimov , Boris Khesin

In this paper, we present some new results on non-Riemannian geometry, more specifically, asymmetric connections and Weyl's geometry. For asymmetric connections, we show that a projective change in the symmetric part generates a vector…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-04-03 A. C. V. V. de Siqueira

This is an expository paper on the theory of gradient flows, and in particular of those PDEs which can be interpreted as gradient flows for the Wasserstein metric on the space of probability measures (a distance induced by optimal…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-09-14 Filippo Santambrogio

A formulation of the shallow water equations adapted to general complex terrains is proposed. Its derivation starts from the observation that the typical approach of depth integrating the Navier-Stokes equations along the direction of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-10-17 Ilaria Fent , Mario Putti , Carlo Gregoretti , Stefano Lanzoni

We use the method of maximum entropy to model physical space as a curved statistical manifold. It is then natural to use information geometry to explain the geometry of space. We find that the resultant information metric does not describe…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-12-31 Ariel Caticha

Motivated by the rich geometry of conformal Riemannian manifolds and by the recent development of geometries modeled on homogeneous spaces $G/P$ with $G$ semisimple and $P$ parabolic, Weyl structures and preferred connections are introduced…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Andreas Cap , Jan Slovak

In this paper we calculate the kinematical quantities of the Raychaudhuri equations, to characterize a congruence of time-like integral curves, according to the vacuum radial solution of Weyl theory of gravity. Also the corresponding flows…

General Physics · Physics 2019-05-09 Mohsen Fathi

Information geometry is used to quantify the amount of information integration within multiple terminals of a causal dynamical system. Integrated information quantifies how much information is lost when a system is split into parts and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-09-08 Shun-ichi Amari , Naotsugu Tsuchiya , Masafumi Oizumi