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It is proved that the set of geodesic circles in two dimensions may be given a variational description and the explicit form of it is presented. In the limit case of the Euclidean geometry a certain claim of uniqueness of such description…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-02-13 Roman Matsyuk

The geodesic problem in Wasserstein spaces with a metric perturbed by a conformal factor is considered, and necessary optimality conditions are estabilished in a case where this conformal factor favours the spreading of the probability…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Luigi Ambrosio , Filippo Santambrogio

It is known that some equations of differential geometry are derived from variational principle in form of Euler-Lagrange equations. The equations of geodesic flow in Riemannian geometry is an example. Conversely, having Lagrangian…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Ruslan Sharipov

We discuss non-relativistic conformal algebras generalizing the Schr\"odinger algebra. One instance of these algebras is a conformal, acceleration-extended, Galilei algebra, which arises also as a contraction of the relativistic conformal…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-06-28 Dario Martelli , Yuji Tachikawa

Based on the distinction between the covariant and contravariant metric tensor components in the framework of the affine geometry approach and the s.c. "gravitational theories with covariant and contravariant connection and metrics", it is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Bogdan G. Dimitrov

Invariance principles determine many key properties in quantum field theory, including, in particular, the appropriate form of the boundary conditions. A crucial consistency check is the proof that the resulting boundary-value problem is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-04-15 Ivan G. Avramidi , Giampiero Esposito

"Physical theories of fundamental significance tend to be gauge theories. These are theories in which the physical system being dealt with is described by more variables than there are physically independent degree of freedom. The…

Classical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Germain Rousseaux

In this paper we develop a geometric approach to convex subdifferential calculus in finite dimensions with employing some ideas of modern variational analysis. This approach allows us to obtain natural and rather easy proofs of basic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-10-06 Boris Mordukhovich , Nguyen Mau Nam

We present a simple geometric construction linking geometric to deformation quantization. Both theories depend on some apparently arbitrary parameters, most importantly a polarization and a symplectic connection, and for real polarizations…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-07-06 Christoph Nölle

This paper considers the Euler-Lagrange equations satisfied by the critical points of a large class of conformally invariant extrinsic energies for 4-manifolds immersed into Euclidean space (any codimension). Using invariances and Noether's…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-10-21 Yann Bernard

In this short note, we construct an example of spiraling conformal geodesic in Euclidean signature in dimension $3$, answering the question posed by Helmuth Friedrich and Paul Tod, if such objects exists. Our example is not real analytic,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-09-03 Wojciech Kamiński

In metric-affine geometry, autoparallels are generically non-variational, i.e., they are not the extremals of any action integral. The existence of a parametrization-invariant action principle for autoparallels is a long-standing open…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-05-12 Lehel Csillag , Nicoleta Voicu , Salah Elgendi , Christian Pfeifer

Some intrinsic tools from the formal theory of variational equations are being demonstrated at work in application to one concrete example of the third-order evolution equation of free relativistic top in three-dimensional space-time. The…

Classical Physics · Physics 2016-04-29 R. Ya. Matsyuk

The 1+3 covariant approach and the covariant gauge-invariant approach to perturbations are used to analyze in depth conformal transformations in cosmology. Such techniques allow us to obtain very interesting insights on the physical content…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-20 Sante Carloni , Emilio Elizalde , Sergei Odintsov

Geometric programming (GP) is a well-known optimization tool for dealing with a wide range of nonlinear optimization and engineering problems. In general, it is assumed that the parameters of a GP problem are deterministic and accurate.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-09 Tapas Mondal , Akshay Kumar Ojha , Sabyasachi Pani

We are concerned with underlying connections between fluids, elasticity, isometric embedding of Riemannian manifolds, and the existence of wrinkled solutions of the associated nonlinear partial differential equations. In this paper, we…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-08-29 Amit Acharya , Gui-Qiang Chen , Siran Li , Marshall Slemrod , Dehua Wang

The concept of universality has shaped our understanding of many-body physics, but is mostly limited to homogenous systems. Here, we present a study of universality on a non-homogeneous graph, the long-range diluted graph (LRDG). Its…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-05-21 Giacomo Bighin , Tilman Enss , Nicolò Defenu

We show that geodesics in the directed landscape have $3/2$-variation and that weight functions along the geodesics have cubic variation. We show that the geodesic and its landscape environment around an interior point has a small-scale…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-10-31 Duncan Dauvergne , Sourav Sarkar , Bálint Virág

We examine the variational and conformal structures of higher order theories of gravity which are derived from a metric-connection Lagrangian that is an arbitrary function of the curvature invariants. We show that the constrained first…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-30 S. Cotsakis , J. Miritzis , L. Querella

Three dimensional unsteady flow of fluids in the Lagrangian description is considered as an autonomous dynamical system in four dimensions. The condition for the existence of a symplectic structure on the extended space is the frozen field…

solv-int · Physics 2009-10-30 H. Gumral
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