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We present a new approach to the problem of proving global stability, based on symplectic geometry and with a focus on systems with several conserved quantities. We also provide a proof of instability for integrable systems whose momentum…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-10-28 Verónica Errasti Díez , Jordi Gaset Rifà , Manuel Lainz

We present a simple class of mechanical models where a canonical degree of freedom interacts with another one with a negative kinetic term, i.e. with a ghost. We prove analytically that the classical motion of the system is completely…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-08-16 Cédric Deffayet , Shinji Mukohyama , Alexander Vikman

Negative kinetic energies correspond to ghost degrees of freedom, which are potentially of relevance for cosmology, quantum gravity, and high energy physics. We present a novel wide class of stable mechanical systems where a positive energy…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-06-02 Cédric Deffayet , Aaron Held , Shinji Mukohyama , Alexander Vikman

We review results on small-data global stability and highlight their applicability to classical interacting scalar fields with opposite-sign kinetic terms (ghosts). Further, we present a one-parameter family of numerical scattering…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-23 Aaron Held

We quantise integrable point-particle systems with opposite-sign kinetic terms and nontrivial interactions. Using methods from separability theory, we show that previously determined classical stability conditions also imply discrete…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-29 Cédric Deffayet , Atabak Fathe Jalali , Aaron Held , Shinji Mukohyama , Alexander Vikman

We explore the nonlinear dynamics of classical field theories containing ghost degrees of freedom, focusing on two coupled scalar fields with opposite kinetic terms in (1+1) and (2+1) dimensional Minkowski spacetime. Using a spacetime…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2026-05-13 Jax Wysong , Samara Overvaag , Hyun Lim , Jung-Han Kimn

We show that a class of nonlocal gravity models, proposed to explain current cosmic acceleration without dark energy, passes two major tests: First, they can be defined so as not to alter the, observationally correct, general relativity…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-11-19 S. Deser , R. P. Woodard

We introduce a new notion of the stability of computations, which holds under post-processing and adaptive composition. We show that the notion is both necessary and sufficient to ensure generalization in the face of adaptivity, for any…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-01 Katrina Ligett , Moshe Shenfeld

We review some of the recent results which can be useful for better understanding of the problem of stability of vacuum and in general classical solutions in higher derivative quantum gravity. The fourth derivative terms in the purely…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-08-29 Filipe de O. Salles , Ilya L. Shapiro

We investigate the problems of ghosts and stability in the framework of asymptotical safe theory of gravity in the Minkowski background. Within one loop corrections, we obtain explicitly the constraints on the coupling parameters. Applying…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-12-06 Changjun Gao , Anzhong Wang

We present a thorough stability analysis of modified gravity theories in the presence of matter fields. We use the Effective Field Theory framework for Dark Energy and Modified Gravity to retain a general approach for the gravity sector and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-03-14 Antonio De Felice , Noemi Frusciante , Georgios Papadomanolakis

Within the framework of the hypothesis offered by authors about a complex-valued nature of physical quantities the stability of basic equations of the classical physics concerning complex-valued perturbations of parameters and boundary…

General Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 V. V. Lyahov , V. M. Nechshadim

In this work, we study the dynamical systems analysis of phantom dark energy models considering a general potential. The stability analysis of the system shows that there is only one fixed point which could be the beginning of the universe…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-06-13 Nandan Roy , Nivedita Bhadra

The unstable nature of the material point method is widely documented and is a barrier to the method being used for routine engineering analyses of large deformation problems. The vast majority of papers concerning this issue are focused on…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-09-23 William M. Coombs

Novel criteria for global asymptotic stability of nonlinear uncertain finite-dimensional systems are presented. The results are obtained by a combination of the "discretization approach" and the ideas contained in the proof of the original…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2009-07-24 Iasson Karafyllis

We develop a framework to give upper bounds on the "practical" computational complexity of stability problems for a wide range of nonlinear continuous and hybrid systems. To do so, we describe stability properties of dynamical systems using…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2014-06-05 Sicun Gao , Soonho Kong , Edmund Clarke

We study the stability of ghost force-free energy-based atomistic-to-continuum coupling methods. In 1D we essentially complete the theory by introducing a universally stable a/c coupling as well as a stabilisation mechanism for unstable…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-08-20 Christoph Ortner , Alexander Shapeev , Lei Zhang

Ghost fields have reemerged in a handful of phenomenologically motivated cosmological and particle physics scenarios, and most recently in a cyclic mechanism to address the fine-tuning of gauge couplings in the standard model. We study the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-07-11 Stephon Alexander , Sam Cormack , David Lowe , Robert Sims

This work proposes a notion of robust reachability of one set from another set under constant control. This notion is used to construct a control strategy, involving sequential set-to-set reachability, which guarantees robust global…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2007-11-21 Iasson Karafyllis , Costas Kravaris

In the present work we suggest a general covariant theory which can be used to study the stability of any physical system treated geometrically. Stability conditions are connected to the magnitude of the deviation vector. This theory is a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-11-15 M. I. Wanas , M. A. Bakry
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