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A unified description of the free-space cylindrical vector beams is presented, which is an integral transformation solution to the vector Helmholtz equation and the transversality condition. The amplitude 2-form of the angular spectrum…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-13 Chun-Fang Li

In this work, the paraxial version of Maxwell equations is derived with the use of two Riemann-Silberstein vectors. Exact solutions of these equations are then obtained representing the paraxial electromagnetic fields. These fields satisfy…

Optics · Physics 2025-04-01 Tomasz Radozycki

It is known that for a non-relativistic quantum particle traveling freely on the $x$-axis, the positional probability can flow in the opposite direction to the particle's velocity. The maximum possible amount of such backflow that can occur…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-08-30 A. J. Bracken , J. B. McGuire

Various superpositions of Bessel-Gaussian beams and modified Bessel Gaussian beams are considered. Two selected parameters characterizing these beams, with respect to which the superpositions are constructed, are the topological index $n$…

Optics · Physics 2023-07-12 Tomasz Radożycki

By now Bayesian methods are routinely used in practice for solving inverse problems. In inverse problems the parameter or signal of interest is observed only indirectly, as an image of a given map, and the observations are typically further…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-11-02 Thibault Randrianarisoa , Botond Szabo

The intrinsic volumes of Gaussian polytopes are considered. A lower variance bound for these quantities is proved, showing that, under suitable normalization, the variances converge to strictly positive limits. The implications of this…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-11-06 Imre Bárány , Christoph Thaele

A fairly general expression for a light beam is found as a solution of the paraxial Helmholtz equation. It is achieved by exploiting appropriately chosen complex variables which entail the separability of the equation. Next, the expression…

Optics · Physics 2025-06-17 Tomasz Radozycki

For propagating and evanescent vector Bessel beams, we study the singularities of the Poynting vector (Poynting singularities), at which the energy flux density turns to zero. Poynting singularities include all the phase singularities and…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-20 Denis V. Novitsky , Andrey V. Novitsky

We study the inverse source problem for the semilinear wave equation \[ (\Box_g + q_1)u + q_2 u^2 = F, \] on a globally hyperbolic Lorentzian manifold. We demonstrate that the coefficients $q_1$ and $q_2$, as well as the source term $F$,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-10-14 Matti Lassas , Tony Liimatainen , Valter Pohjola , Teemu Tyni

We investigate the posterior rate of convergence for wavelet shrinkage using a Bayesian approach in general Besov spaces. Instead of studying the Bayesian estimator related to a particular loss function, we focus on the posterior…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2007-09-24 Heng Lian

A novel phenomenon was reported recently that the "local optical spin density" based on Poynting vector might be counter-intuitively opposite to the integrated spin orientation while the one related to the canonical expression might not…

Optics · Physics 2018-12-26 Zhen-Lai Wang , Dan-Dan Lian , Xiang-Song Chen

We have considered the paraxial vector erf-Gaussian beams with field distribution in the form of the error function that are shaped by the cone of plane waves with a fractional step of the azimuthal phase distribution modulated by the…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-03 T. Fadeyeva , C. Alexeyev , A. Rubass , A. Volyar

The present paper discusses certain special Gaussian beams that, thanks to some polynomial prefactors, have uniquely designed holes in the irradiance. Such holes, or rather tubes, can constitute potential valleys for negatively polarizable…

Optics · Physics 2025-02-13 Tomasz Radozycki

We study the use of Gaussian process emulators to approximate the parameter-to-observation map or the negative log-likelihood in Bayesian inverse problems. We prove error bounds on the Hellinger distance between the true posterior…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-10-01 Andrew M. Stuart , Aretha L. Teckentrup

Solutions of the linearized Einstein equations are found that describe a transversely confined beam of circularly polarized gravitational waves on a Minkowski backdrop. By evaluating the cycle-averaged stress-energy-momentum pseudotensor of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-08-02 William Barker

We analyze the paraxial beam transformation upon reflection and refraction at a plane boundary. In contrast to the usual approach dealing with the beam angular spectrum, we apply the continuity conditions to explicit spatial representations…

Optics · Physics 2013-05-30 Aleksandr Bekshaev

Gaussian filters have applications in a variety of areas in computer science, from computer vision to speech recognition. The collapsing sum is a matrix operator that was recently introduced to study Gaussian filters combinatorially. In…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-12-30 Travis Dillon

The gravitational Poynting vector provides a mechanism for the transfer of gravitational energy to a system of falling objects. In the following we will show that the gravitational poynting vector together with the gravitational Larmor…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 C. J. de Matos , M. Tajmar

A wide class of nonuniformly totally polarized beams is introduced that preserve their transverse polarization pattern during paraxial propagation. They are obtained as suitable combinations of Gaussian modes and find applications in…

Gaussian beams are asymptotically valid high frequency solutions to hyperbolic partial differential equations, concentrated on a single curve through the physical domain. They can also be extended to some dispersive wave equations, such as…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2011-06-03 Hailiang Liu , Olof Runborg , Nicolay M. Tanushev