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A model in which pointlike defects are randomly embedded in Minkowski spacetime is considered. The distribution of spacetime defects is constructed to be Lorentz-invariant. It does not introduce a preferred reference frame, because it is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-12-16 M. Schreck , F. Sorba , S. Thambyahpillai

In this paper we use a general version of Fermat's principle for light rays in General Relativity and a curve shortening method to write the Morse relations for light rays joining an event with a smooth timelike curve in a Lorentzian…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Fabio Giannoni , Antonio Masiello , Paolo Piccione

We propose a method based on sinc series approximations for computing the Rayleigh-Sommerfeld and Fresnel diffraction integrals of optics. The diffraction integrals are given in terms of a convolution, and our proposed numerical approach is…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-11-16 Max Cubillos , Edwin Jimenez

We show that in the weak field limit the light deflection alone cannot distinguish between different $R + F[g(\square)R]$ models of gravity, where $F$ and $g$ are arbitrary functions. This does not imply, however, that in all these theories…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-03-09 Breno L. Giacchini , Ilya L. Shapiro

Searches for dispersive effects in the propagation of light at cosmological distances have been touted as sensitive probes of Lorentz invariance violation (LIV) and of theories of quantum gravity. Frequency-dependent time lags between…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-09-18 David C. Latimer

This paper studies the deflection of charged particles in a dipole magnetic field in Schwarzschild spacetime background in the weak field approximation. To calculate the deflection angle, we use Jacobi metric and Gauss-Bonnet theorem. Since…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-12-28 Zonghai Li , Wei Wang , Junji Jia

This paper is devoted to Fokker-Planck and linear kinetic equations with very weak confinement corresponding to a potential with an at most logarithmic growth and no integrable stationary state. Our goal is to understand how to measure the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-01-25 Emeric Bouin , Jean Dolbeault , Christian Schmeiser

In this paper a differential equation with noninteger order was used to model an anomalous luminescence decay process. Although this process is in principle an exponential decaying process, recent data indicates that is not the case for…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-07-05 Nelson H. T. Lemes , José Paulo C. dos Santos , João P. Braga

Estimating parameters of a diffusion process given continuous-time observations of the process via maximum likelihood approaches or, online, via stochastic gradient descent or Kalman filter formulations constitutes a well-established…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-03-17 Jan Albrecht , Sebastian Reich

We investigate the convergence properties of exact and inexact forward-backward algorithms to minimise the sum of two weakly convex functions defined on a Hilbert space, where one has a Lipschitz-continuous gradient. We show that the exact…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-06-24 Ewa Bednarczuk , Giovanni Bruccola , Gabriele Scrivanti , The Hung Tran

At present, the theory of light diffraction only has the simple wave-optical approach. In this paper, we study light diffraction with the approach of relativistic quantum theory. We find that the slit length, slit width, slit thickness and…

{Using two different approaches, we study imaging in the strong lens regime taking into account the effects of plasmatic environments on light propagation. First, we extend the use of a perturbative approach that allows us to quickly and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-05-24 Gabriel Crisnejo , Emanuel Gallo , Ezequiel Boero , Osvaldo M. Moreschi

A numerical approach to solve the perturbed Lambert's problem is presented. The proposed technique uses the Theory of Functional Connections, which allows the derivation of a constrained functional that analytically satisfies the boundary…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-08-08 Franco Criscola , David Canales , Daniele Mortari

Light propagation in optical waveguides with periodically modulated index of refraction and alternating gain and loss are investigated for linear and nonlinear systems. Based on a multiscale perturbation analysis, it is shown that for many…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-23 Sean Nixon , Jianke Yang

Diffraction is a fundamental property of light propagation. Owing to this phenomenon,light diffracts out in all directions when it passes through a subwavelength slit.This imposes a fundamental limit on the transverse size of a light beam…

Optics · Physics 2013-10-11 S. V. Kukhlevsky , M. Mechler

For over a century diffraction theory has been thought to limit the resolution of focusing and imaging in the optical domain. The size of the smallest spot achievable is inversely proportional to the range of spatial wavevectors available.…

Optics · Physics 2011-01-11 Michael Mazilu , Joerg Baumgartl , Kishan Dholakia

Classical light bending is investigated for weak gravitational fields in the presence of hypothetical local Lorentz violation. Using an effective field theory framework that describes general deviations from local Lorentz invariance, we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-05-29 Rhondale Tso , Quentin G. Bailey

Using a new geometrical method introduced by Werner, we find the deflection angle in the weak limit approximation by a spinning cosmic string in the context of the Einstein-Cartan (EC) theory of gravity. We begin by adopting the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-06-17 Kimet Jusufi

The scattered field formalism is combined to the particle-in-cell method to model relativistic laser-plasma dynamics in complex field configurations. Despite the strong nonlinearity of the interactions, we demonstrate the validity of this…

Optics · Physics 2023-10-18 M. Lytova , F. Fillion-Gourdeau , S. Vallières , F. Légaré , S. MacLean

We present a comprehensive full-sky 3-dimensional analysis of the weak-lensing fields and their corresponding power spectra. Using the formalism of spin-weight spherical harmonics and spherical Bessel functions, we relate the two-point…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 P. G. Castro , A. F. Heavens , T. D. Kitching