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Design, control, and estimation for dynamic systems require accurate and analytically tractable models. However, modern engineered systems contain components that are described with heterogeneous modeling paradigms, as well as subsystems…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-21 Leeroy Makusha , Preston Abadie , Donald J. Docimo

It is well-known that $\epsilon$-stable sets have a deep connection with the topological entropy of dynamical systems. In the present paper, we investigate the relationships of three types of upper metric mean dimensions with potential…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2024-09-05 Rui Yang , Ercai Chen , Xiaoyao Zhou

We study the properties of topological spaces $(X,\tau)$, where $X$ is a definable set in an o-minimal structure and the topology $\tau$ on $X$ has a basis that is (uniformly) definable. Examples of such spaces include the canonical…

Logic · Mathematics 2023-10-11 Pablo Andújar Guerrero , Margaret E. M. Thomas

In this paper, motivated by a physics problem, we investigate some numerical and computational aspects for the problem of hierarchical controllability in a one-dimensional wave equation in domains with a moving boundary. Some controls act…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-08-05 Pitágoras P. de Carvalho , Olímpio P. de Sá Neto

Structural controllability has been proposed as an analytical framework for making predictions regarding the control of complex networks across myriad disciplines in the physical and life sciences (Liu et al., Nature:473(7346):167-173,…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-05-28 Noah J. Cowan , Erick J. Chastain , Daril A. Vilhena , James S. Freudenberg , Carl T. Bergstrom

Networks are a widely used and efficient paradigm to model real-world systems where basic units interact pairwise. Many body interactions are often at play, and cannot be modelled by resorting to binary exchanges. In this work, we consider…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2020-06-03 Timoteo Carletti , Duccio Fanelli , Sara Nicoletti

We consider networks of elastic strings with end masses, where the coupling is modeled via elastic springs. The model is representative of a network of nonlinear strings, where the strings are coupled to elastic bodies. The coupled system…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-24 Günter Leugering , Charlotte Rodriguez , Yue Wang

We study a long-recognised but under-appreciated symmetry called "dynamical similarity" and illustrate its relevance to many important conceptual problems in fundamental physics. Dynamical similarities are general transformations of a…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2021-12-30 Sean Gryb , David Sloan

We investigate how dynamical decoupling methods may be used to manipulate the time evolution of quantum many-body systems. These methods consist of sequences of external control operations designed to induce a desired dynamics. The systems…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 Julie Dinerman , Lea F. Santos

The goal of this paper is to put together several techniques in handling dynamical systems on zero-dimensional spaces, such as array representation, inverse limit representation, or Bratteli-Vershik representation. We describe how one can…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2016-12-07 Tomasz Downarowicz , Olena Karpel

The distributed observer design problem holds significant importance in cases in which the output information of a system is decentralized across different subsystems. Each subsystem has a local observer and access to one part of the…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2024-02-13 Haotian Xu , Shuai Liu , Bohui Wang , Jingcheng Wang

This paper addresses two minimum reaching time control problems within the context of finite stable systems. The well-known Variable Structure Control (VSC) and Unity Vector Control (UVC) strategies are analyzed, with the primary objective…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-10 J. C. Geromel , L. Hsu , E. V. L. Nunes

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

This paper investigates the robustness of strong structural controllability for linear time-invariant and linear time-varying directed networks with respect to structural perturbations, including edge deletions and additions. In this…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2020-05-26 Shima Sadat Mousavi , Mohammad Haeri , Mehran Mesbahi

This paper studies the problem of optimal switching for one-dimensional diffusion, which may be regarded as sequential optimal stopping problem with changes of regimes. The resulting dynamic programming principle leads to a system of…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Huyen Pham

Hamiltonian structures for spatially compact locally homogeneous vacuum universes are investigated, provided that the set of dynamical variables contains the \Teich parameters, parameterizing the purely global geometry. One of the key…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-30 Masayuki Tanimoto , Tatsuhiko Koike , Akio Hosoya

We propose a theory of deterministic chaos for discrete systems, based on their representations in binary state spaces $ \Omega $, homeomorphic to the space of symbolic dynamics. This formalism is applied to neural networks and cellular…

chao-dyn · Physics 2008-02-03 H. Waelbroeck , F. Zertuche

The framework of quantum invariants is an elegant generalization of adiabatic quantum control to control fields that do not need to change slowly. Due to the unavailability of invariants for systems with more than one spatial dimension, the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-17 Selwyn Simsek , Florian Mintert

Dynamical universality plays a fundamental role in understanding the scaling properties of critical dynamics, including absorbing phase transitions and physical aging. Although individual universality classes have been extensively studied,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-03-10 Rong Li , Qirui Ding , Weicheng Cui

Multidimensional scaling (MDS) is a popular technique for mapping a finite metric space into a low-dimensional Euclidean space in a way that best preserves pairwise distances. We study a notion of MDS on infinite metric measure spaces,…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-04-17 Lara Kassab