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The design of mixed finite element methods in linear elasticity with symmetric stress approximations has been a longstanding open problem until Arnold and Winther designed the first family of mixed finite elements where the discrete stress…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-04-15 Jun Hu

We show how conformal partial waves (or conformal blocks) of spinor/tensor correlators can be related to each other by means of differential operators in four dimensional conformal field theories. We explicitly construct such differential…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-01-26 Alejandro Castedo Echeverri , Emtinan Elkhidir , Denis Karateev , Marco Serone

We address the problem of how to characterise when a rank-two conformal Killing tensor is the trace-free part of a Killing tensor for a metric in the conformal class. We call such a metric a Killing scale. Our approach is via differential…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-06-26 A. Rod Gover , Jonathan Kress , Thomas Leistner

Following Brown[1], we construct composite operators for the scalar $\phi^3$ theory in six dimensions using renormalisation group methods with dimensional regularisation. We express bare scalar operators in terms of renormalised composite…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-09-08 Pavan Dharanipragada , Bala Sathiapalan

The tensor train (TT) rank has received increasing attention in tensor completion due to its ability to capture the global correlation of high-order tensors ($\textrm{order} >3$). For third order visual data, direct TT rank minimization has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-30 Meng Ding , Ting-Zhu Huang , Xi-Le Zhao , Michael K. Ng , Tian-Hui Ma

We develop a finite element discretization for the weakly symmetric equations of linear elasticity on tetrahedral meshes. The finite element combines, for $r \geq 0$, discontinuous polynomials of $r$ for the displacement,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-02-09 Tobin Isaac

Cartesian harmonic tensors are completely symmetric traceless tensors in three dimensional space constructed from the direct product of unit vectors. They are useful in generating expressions for the angular coupling of spherical harmonics…

Classical Physics · Physics 2023-03-14 William C. Parke

Octupolar tensors are third order, completely symmetric and traceless tensors. Whereas in 2D an octupolar tensor has the same symmetries as an equilateral triangle and can ultimately be identified with a vector in the plane, the symmetries…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-12-24 Giuseppe Gaeta , Epifanio G. Virga

We introduce variants of Regge finite element metrics with enhanced properties of the trace. In particular the trace operator is surjective to a finite element space of continuous functions. Multiplying these scalar functions by the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-17 Snorre H. Christiansen , Ting Lin

For conformal field theories in arbitrary dimensions, we introduce a method to derive the conformal blocks corresponding to the exchange of a traceless symmetric tensor appearing in four point functions of operators with spin. Using the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-07-31 Miguel S. Costa , Joao Penedones , David Poland , Slava Rychkov

This article deals with solving partial differential equations with the finite element method on hybrid non-conforming hexahedral-tetrahedral meshes. By non-conforming, we mean that a quadrangular face of a hexahedron can be connected to…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2016-05-10 Maxence Reberol , Bruno Lévy

Third order three-dimensional symmetric and traceless tensors play an important role in physics and tensor representation theory. A minimal integrity basis of a third order three-dimensional symmetric and traceless tensor has four…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-08-21 Yannan Chen , Shenglong Hu , Liqun Qi , Wennan Zou

We construct finite element approximations of the Levi-Civita connection and its curvature on triangulations of oriented two-dimensional manifolds. Our construction relies on the Regge finite elements, which are piecewise polynomial…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-12-22 Yakov Berchenko-Kogan , Evan S. Gawlik

The classical continuous mixed formulation of linear elasticity with pointwise symmetric stresses allows for a conforming finite element discretization with piecewise polynomials of degree at least three. Symmetric stress approximations of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-03-17 Carsten Carstensen , Norbert Heuer

Symmetric trace-free tensors are used in many areas of physics, including electromagnetism, relativistic celestial mechanics and geodesy, as well as in the study of gravitational radiation and gravitational lensing. Their use allows…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-11-29 Viktor T. Toth , Slava G. Turyshev

Tensor completion is a natural higher-order generalization of matrix completion where the goal is to recover a low-rank tensor from sparse observations of its entries. Existing algorithms are either heuristic without provable guarantees,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-07-14 Allen Liu , Ankur Moitra

A novel tensor decomposition framework, termed Tensor Star (TS) decomposition, is proposed which represents a new type of tensor network decomposition based on tensor contractions. This is achieved by connecting the core tensors in a ring…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-10 Wuyang Zhou , Yu-Bang Zheng , Qibin Zhao , Danilo Mandic

The goal of the present paper is to provide a mathematically rigorous foundation to certain aspects of rational orbifold conformal field theory, in other words the theory of rational vertex operator algebras and their automorphisms. Under a…

q-alg · Mathematics 2009-10-30 Chongying Dong , Haisheng Li , Geoffrey Mason

In this paper, we construct, in a unified fashion, lower order finite element subspaces of spaces of symmetric tensors with square-integrable divergence on a domain in any dimension. These subspaces are essentially the symmetric H(div)-Pk…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-04-15 Jun Hu , Shangyou Zhang

We construct finite element Stokes complexes on tetrahedral meshes in three-dimensional space. In the lowest order case, the finite elements in the complex have 4, 18, 16, and 1 degrees of freedom, respectively. As a consequence, we obtain…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-11-02 Kaibo Hu , Qian Zhang , Zhimin Zhang