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Just because the propagator of some field obeys a de Sitter invariant equation does not mean it possesses a de Sitter invariant solution. The classic example is the propagator of a massless, minimally coupled scalar. We show that the same…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-12-30 S. P. Miao , N. C. Tsamis , R. P. Woodard

We consider the one-dimensional outer stochastic Stefan problem with reflection. The problem admits maximal solutions as long as the velocity of the moving boundary remains bounded, [3,9,10]. We apply Malliavin calculus to the transformed…

We study the long-time behavior of scale-invariant solutions of the 2d Euler equation satisfying a discrete symmetry. We show that all scale-invariant solutions with bounded variation on $\mathbb{S}^1$ relax to states that are piece-wise…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-10-13 Tarek. M. Elgindi , Ryan. W. Murray , Ayman. R. Said

Starting from the equation of motion of the quantum operator of a real scalar field phi in de Sitter space-time, a simple differential equation is derived which describes the evolution of quantum fluctuations <phi^2> of this field. Full de…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 Alexander Dolgov , Diego N. Pelliccia

This paper studies the numerical solution of traveling singular sources problems. In such problems, a big challenge is the sources move with different speeds, which are described by some ordinary differential equations. A…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-11-30 Zhicheng Hu , Keiwei Liang

We derive an analytical solution for the one-point distribution of a passive scalar in decaying homogeneous turbulence, in the limit of strong turbulence (high Re, fixed Schmidt number). Velocity statistics are governed by the Euler…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-03-19 Alexander Migdal

We show that any convex region which contains a unit segment, an equilateral triangle of sides 1/2, and a square of side 1/3 always has area at least 0.227498. Using grid-search algorithm, we attempt to find a configuration of these three…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2009-06-05 Tirasan Khandhawit , Sira Sriswasdi

The inverse problem of the calculus of variations consists in determining if the solutions of a given system of second order differential equations correspond with the solutions of the Euler-Lagrange equations for some regular Lagrangian.…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-03-27 María Barbero-Liñán , Marta Farré Puiggalí , David Martín de Diego

Using purely geometrical methods we present a mechanism to solve the scalar field equations of motion (non-minimally coupled with gravity) in a spherically symmetric background. We found that the \emph{full }set of spacetimes, which are of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-03-06 Pantelis S. Apostolopoulos

An optimal transport problem on finite spaces is a linear program. Recently, a relaxation of the optimal transport problem via strictly convex functions, especially via the Kullback--Leibler divergence, sheds new light on data sciences.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-03-03 Asuka Takatsu

We consider two variational evolution problems related to Monge-Kantorovich mass transfer. These problems provide models for collapsing sandpiles and for compression molding. We prove the following connection between these problems and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Mikhail Feldman

We propose a novel framework, called moving window method, for solving the linear Schr\"odinger equation with an external potential in $\mathbb{R}^d$. This method employs a smooth cut-off function to truncate the equation from Cauchy…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-08-20 Arieh Iserles , Buyang Li , Fangyan Yao

We show that for a very general and natural class of curvature functions (for example the curvature quotients $(\sigma_n/\sigma_l)^{\frac{1}{n-l}}$) the problem of finding a complete spacelike strictly convex hypersurface in de Sitter space…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2012-03-27 Joel Spruck , Ling Xiao

The isoperimetric problem asks for the maximum area of a region of given perimeter. It is natural to consider other measurements of a region, such as the diameter and width, and ask for the extreme value of one when another is fixed. The…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2022-02-22 Gábor Fejes Tóth

We develop a method for optimization in shape spaces, i.e., sets of surfaces modulo re-parametrization. Unlike previously proposed gradient flows, we achieve superlinear convergence rates through a subtle approximation of the shape Hessian,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-04-15 J. Balzer , S. Soatto

We study the mixing properties of a scalar $\rho$ advected by a certain incompressible velocity field $u$ on the two dimensional unit ball, which is a stationary radial solution of the Euler equation. The scalar $\rho$ solves the continuity…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-01-31 Gianluca Crippa , Renato Lucà , Christian Schulze

In Euclidean space, the generalised Minkowski problem asks, for a given finite Radon measure $\mu$ on the unit sphere $\mathbb{S}^d$, to find a compact convex set $K$ with area measure $\mu$. For convex sets in the Minkowski space invariant…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-05-06 Antoine Ablondi

We propose a volumetric formulation for computing the Optimal Transport problem defined on surfaces in $\mathbb{R}^3$, found in disciplines like optics, computer graphics, and computational methodologies. Instead of directly tackling the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-05-16 Richard Tsai , Axel G. R. Turnquist

English version of abstract: The dynamic optimization problems treated by the calculus of variations are usually solved with the help of the 2nd order Euler-Lagrange differential equations. These equations are, generally speaking,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2011-09-02 Paulo D. F. Gouveia , Delfim F. M. Torres

We reformulate free equations of motion for massive spin 0 and spin 1/2 matter fields in 2+1 dimensional anti-de Sitter space in the form of some covariant constantness conditions. The infinite-dimensional representation of the anti-de…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 A. V. Barabanschikov , S. F. Prokushkin , M. A. Vasiliev