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We suggest a generalization of vector calculus for the case of non-integer dimensional space. The first and second orders operations such as gradient, divergence, the scalar and vector Laplace operators for non-integer dimensional space are…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-03-09 Vasily E. Tarasov

An analogue of the total variation prior for the normal vector field along the boundary of piecewise flat shapes in 3D is introduced. A major class of examples are triangulated surfaces as they occur for instance in finite element…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-06-24 Ronny Bergmann , Marc Herrmann , Roland Herzog , Stephan Schmidt , José Vidal Núñez

A rigorous formulation of Vessiot's vector field approach to the analysis of general systems of partial differential equations is provided. It is shown that this approach is equivalent to the formal theory of differential equations and that…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-09-28 Dirk Fesser , Werner M. Seiler

In Tensor Field Theory (TFT), observables are defined through tensor field contractions that produce unitary invariants for complex-valued tensor fields. Traditionally, these observables are constructed using tensor fields of a fixed order…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-05-20 Joseph Ben Geloun , Arnauld Solente

This article offers a new perspective for the mechanics of solids using moving Cartan's frame, specifically discussing a mixed variational principle in non-linear elasticity. We treat quantities defined on the co-tangent bundles of…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2022-04-06 Bensingh Dhas , Jamun Kumar N , Debasish Roy , J N Reddy

The purpose of this effort is to investigate if the use of quaternion mathematics can be used to better model and simulate the electromagnetic fields that occur from moving electromagnetic charges. One observed deficiency with the commonly…

Classical Physics · Physics 2022-09-30 Matthew David Marko , Joe Schaff

A simple theory of the covariant derivatives, deformed derivatives and relative covariant derivatives of extensor fields is present using algebraic and analytical tools developed in previous papers. Several important formulas are derived.

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 V. V. Fernandez , A. M. Moya , E. Notte-Cuello , W. A. Rodrigues

We introduce a rotation-invariant representation of planar shapes. In particular, this representation encodes shapes as vectors such that the Euclidean distance between them serves as a valid shape distance. For standardized, star-shaped…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Hamid Shafieasl , Jeff M. Phillips

This paper presents a geometric-variational approach to continuous and discrete mechanics and field theories. Using multisymplectic geometry, we show that the existence of the fundamental geometric structures as well as their preservation…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-10-20 Jerrold E. Marsden , George W. Patrick , Steve Shkoller

We introduce combinatorial multivector fields, associate with them multivalued dynamics and study their topological features. Our combinatorial multivector fields generalize combinatorial vector fields of Forman. We define isolated…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2016-05-24 Marian Mrozek

We outline an algorithm for construction of functional bases of absolute invariants under the rotation group for sets of rank 2 tensors and vectors in the Euclidean space of arbitrary dimension. We will use our earlier results for symmetric…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-12-10 Irina Yehorchenko

Vector algebra is a powerful and needful tool for Physics but unfortunately, due to lack of mathematical skills, it becomes misleading for first undergraduate courses of science and engineering studies. Standard vector identities are…

General Physics · Physics 2009-04-14 Miguel Angel Rodriguez-Valverde , Maria Tirado-Miranda

We develope a difference calculus analogous to the differential geometry by translating the forms and exterior derivatives to similar expressions with difference operators, and apply the results to fields theory on the lattice [Ref. 1]. Our…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Lorente

Discrete vector bundles are important in Physics and recently found remarkable applications in Computer Graphics. This article approaches discrete bundles from the viewpoint of Discrete Differential Geometry, including a complete…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-01-19 Felix Knöppel , Ulrich Pinkall

We present a novel surface convolution operator acting on vector fields that is based on a simple observation: instead of combining neighboring features with respect to a single coordinate parameterization defined at a given point, we have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-17 Thomas W. Mitchel , Vladimir G. Kim , Michael Kazhdan

We study phase portraits and singular points of vector fields of a special type, that is, vector fields whose components are fractions with a common denominator vanishing on a smooth regular hypersurface in the phase space. We assume also…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2010-07-26 Roberta Ghezzi , Alexey Remizov

We introduce a deep learning method to simulate the motion of particles trapped in a chaotic recirculating flame. The Lagrangian trajectories of particles, captured using a high-speed camera and subsequently reconstructed in 3-dimensional…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-12-13 Pai Liu , Jingwei Gan , Rajan K. Chakrabarty

We propose a real-space renormalization group algorithm for accurately coarse-graining two-dimensional tensor networks. The central innovation of our method lies in utilizing variational boundary tensors as a globally optimized environment…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-03-03 Feng-Feng Song , Naoki Kawashima

We use the gradients of theta functions at odd two-torsion points --- thought of as vector-valued modular forms --- to construct holomorphic differential forms on the moduli space of principally polarized abelian varieties, and to…

A variational integrator for ideal magnetohydrodynamics is derived by applying a discrete action principle to a formal Lagrangian. Discrete exterior calculus is used for the discretisation of the field variables in order to preserve their…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-03-13 Michael Kraus , Omar Maj