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We introduce an action-angle formalism for bounded geodesic motion in Kerr black hole spacetime using canonical perturbation theory. Namely, we employ a Lie series technique to produce a series of canonical transformations on a Hamiltonian…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-08-04 Morteza Kerachian , Lukáš Polcar , Viktor Skoupý , Christos Efthymiopoulos , Georgios Lukes-Gerakopoulos

Birkhoff normal form is a power series expansion associated with the local behavior of the Hamiltonian systems near a critical point. It is known to be convergent for integrable systems under some non-degeneracy conditions. By means of an…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-07-23 Jean-Pierre Francoise , Daisuke Tarama

We consider free and proper cotangent-lifted symmetries of Hamiltonian systems. For the special case of G = SO(3), we construct symplectic slice coordinates around an arbitrary point. We thus obtain a parametrisation of the phase space…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2013-12-02 Tanya Schmah , Cristina Stoica

Context: The modelling of stationary galactic stellar populations can be performed using distribution functions. Aims: This paper aims to write explicit integrals of motion and distribution functions. Methods: We propose an analytic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-07-17 Olivier Bienayme

A method is presented to compute minimizers (instantons) of action functionals using arclength parametrization of Hamilton's equations. This method can be interpreted as a local variant of the geometric minimum action method (gMAM)…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-08-26 Tobias Grafke , Rainer Grauer , Tobias Schäfer , Eric Vanden-Eijnden

Quasinormal modes describe the ringdown of compact objects deformed by small perturbations. In generic theories of gravity that extend General Relativity, the linearized dynamics of these perturbations is described by a system of coupled…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-10-04 Lam Hui , Alessandro Podo , Luca Santoni , Enrico Trincherini

It has long been agreed by academics that the inversion method is the method of choice for generating random variates, given the availability of the quantile function. However for several probability distributions arising in practice a…

Computational Finance · Quantitative Finance 2012-04-03 Asad Munir , William Shaw

Variational methods for parameter estimation are an active research area, potentially offering computationally tractable heuristics with theoretical performance bounds. We build on recent work that applies such methods to network data, and…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2013-10-30 Peter Bickel , David Choi , Xiangyu Chang , Hai Zhang

Our previously-developed calculational method (the partial wave cutoff method) is employed to evaluate explicitly scalar one-loop effective actions in a class of radially symmetric background gauge fields. Our method proves to be…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Gerald V. Dunne , Jin Hur , Choonkyu Lee , Hyunsoo Min

We consider a 1D mechanical system $$\bar {\mathtt H}(\mathtt P,\mathtt Q)=\mathtt P^2+\bar {\mathtt G}(\mathtt Q)$$ in action-angle variable $(\mathtt P,\mathtt Q)$ where $\bar {\mathtt G}$ is a $2\pi$-periodic analytic function with non…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2020-04-02 Luca Biasco , Luigi Chierchia

In this letter, we study the purely nonlinear oscillator by the method of action-angle variables of Hamiltonian systems. The frequency of the non-isochronous system is obtained, which agrees well with the previously known result. Exact…

Classical Physics · Physics 2019-07-24 Aritra Ghosh , Chandrasekhar Bhamidipati

We develop some formalism which is very general Feynman path integral in the case of the action which is allowed to be complex. The major point is that the effect of the imaginary part of the action (mainly) is to determine which solution…

General Physics · Physics 2009-10-13 Holger B. Nielsen , Masaao Ninomiya

The modified biharmonic equation is encountered in a variety of application areas, including streamfunction formulations of the Navier-Stokes equations. We develop a separation of variables representation for this equation in polar…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-10-17 Travis Askham

Probability distributions in Stiefel manifold such as the von-Mises Fisher and Bingham distributions find diverse applications in signal processing and other applied sciences. Use of these statistical models in practice is complicated by…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2016-02-15 Lu Wei , Jukka Corander

We use the action-angle variables to describe the geodesic motions in the $5$-dimensional Sasaki-Einstein spaces $Y^{p,q}$. This formulation allows us to study thoroughly the complete integrability of the system. We find that the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-01-17 Mihai Visinescu

The equations of motion for the position and gauge invariant crystal momentum are considered for multiband wave packets of Bloch electrons. For a localized packet in a subset of bands well-separated from the rest of the band structure of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-02-05 Troy Stedman , Carsten Timm , Lilia M. Woods

An efficient proximal-gradient-based method, called proximal extrapolated gradient method, is designed for solving monotone variational inequality in Hilbert space. The proposed method extends the acceptable range of parameters to obtain…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-12-05 Xiaokai Chang , Sanyang Liu , Jianchao Bai , Jun Yang

In this paper we define invariants of Hamiltonian group actions for central regular values of the moment map. The key hypotheses are that the moment map is proper and that the ambient manifold is symplectically aspherical. The invariants…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Kai Cieliebak , A. Rita Gaio , Ignasi Mundet i Riera , Dietmar Salamon

Charged particle motion in axisymmetric toroidal magnetic fields is analyzed within the context of the canonical Hamiltonian Guiding Center theory. A canonical transformation to variables measuring the drift orbit deviation from a magnetic…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-02-08 Yannis Antonenas , Giorgos Anastassiou , Yannis Kominis

We give integral formulas to approximate solutions of Dirichlet and Neumann problems for Helmholtz equation at high frequencies. These approximations are valid in the complementary of a union of convex compact obstacles. The first step of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-02-18 François Cuvelier