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If the constituent particles of fluid phases interact via long-ranged van der Waals forces, the effective Hamiltonian for \emph{interfaces} between such fluid phases contains - in lateral Fourier space - non-analytic terms $ \sim q^4 \ln…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2010-05-14 F. Dutka , M. Napiorkowski , S. Dietrich

The Hamiltonian action of a Lie group on a symplectic manifold induces a momentum map generalizing Noether's conserved quantity occurring in the case of a symmetry group. Then, when a Hamiltonian function can be written in terms of this…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2021-08-19 Michael S. Foskett , Darryl D. Holm , Cesare Tronci

Many equations that arise in a physical context can be posed in the form of a Hamiltonian system, meaning that there is a symplectic structure on an appropriate phase space, and a Hamiltonian functional with respect to which time evolution…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-01-18 Walter Craig

Described is n-level quantum system realized in the n-dimensional ''Hilbert'' space H with the scalar product G taken as a dynamical variable. The most general Lagrangian for the wave function and G is considered. Equations of motion and…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2008-05-28 Vasyl Kovalchuk , Jan Jerzy Slawianowski

The formalism to treat quantization and evolution of cosmological perturbations of multiple fluids is described. We first construct the Lagrangian for both the gravitational and matter parts, providing the necessary relevant variables and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-02-01 Patrick Peter , Nelson Pinto-Neto , Sandro Dias Pinto Vitenti

We present the basic formulation of Hamilton dynamics in complex phase space. We extend the Hamilton's function by including the imaginary part and find out the corresponding Hamilton's canonical equation of motion. Example of simple…

Classical Physics · Physics 2019-06-18 Muhammad Adnan Shahzad

In this paper we present a novel approach to the geometric formulation of solid and fluid mechanics within the port-Hamiltonian framework, which extends the standard Hamiltonian formulation to non-conservative and open dynamical systems.…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-04-19 Ramy Rashad , Stefano Stramigioli

It has been observed earlier that, in principle, it is possible to obtain a quantum mechanical interpretation of higher order quantum cosmological models in the spatially homogeneous and isotropic background, if auxiliary variable required…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 Abhik Kumar Sanyal

We derive the John-Sclavounos equations describing the motion of a fluid particle on the sea surface from first principles using Lagrangian and Hamiltonian formalisms applied to the motion of a frictionless particle constrained on an…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2016-07-26 Francesco Fedele , Cristel Chandre , Mohammad Farazmand

Using a covariant geometric approach we obtain the effective bending couplings for a 2-dimensional rigid membrane embedded into a $(2+D)$-dimensional Euclidean space. The Hamiltonian for the membrane has three terms: The first one is…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 J. A. Santiago , A. Zamora

We examine the equilibrium conditions of a curve in space when a local energy penalty is associated with its extrinsic geometrical state characterized by its curvature and torsion. To do this we tailor the theory of deformations to the…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2009-11-07 Riccardo Capovilla , Chryssomalis Chryssomalakos , Jemal Guven

We study the constrained Ostrogradski-Hamilton framework for the equations of motion provided by mechanical systems described by second-order derivative actions with a linear dependence in the accelerations. We stress out the peculiar…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-06-30 Miguel Cruz , Rosario Gomez-Cortes , Alberto Molgado , Efrain Rojas

Causal variational principles, which are the analytic core of the physical theory of causal fermion systems, are found to have an underlying Hamiltonian structure, giving a formulation of the dynamics in terms of physical fields in…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-10-17 Felix Finster , Johannes Kleiner

In the quadri-dimensional space-time, the variation of Hamilton's action is a powerful tool to study the process equations for conservative fluid media. In this framework, Hamilton's principle allows to obtain equation of motions, equation…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2020-11-03 Henri Gouin

We derive an effective Hamiltonian for a quantum system constrained to a submanifold (the constraint manifold) of configuration space (the ambient space) by an infinite restoring force. We pay special attention to how this Hamiltonian…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-06 Kevin A. Mitchell

We study the qualitative homogenization of second order viscous Hamilton-Jacobi equations in space-time stationary ergodic random environments. Assuming that the Hamiltonian is convex and superquadratic in the momentum variable (gradient)…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-02-07 Wenjia Jing , Panagiotis E. Souganidis , Hung V. Tran

The Hamiltonian formulation of the dynamics of a relativistic particle described by a higher-derivative action that depends both on the first and the second Frenet-Serret curvatures is considered from a geometrical perspective. We…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 Riccardo Capovilla , Jemal Guven , Efrain Rojas

A strengthened canonical quantization scheme for the constrained motion on a curved hypersurface is proposed with introduction of the second category of fundamental commutation relations between Hamiltonian and positions/momenta, whereas…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-10-07 Q. H. Liu

We investigate the deformation of symmetry on cotangent bundles from the Euclidean plane to two-dimensional constant-curvature surfaces and the continuation of local dynamics aspects in Hamiltonian systems. For a fixed curvature sign…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-04-16 Cristina Stoica

An application of the Newton-Cartan framework to the study of membranes is presented. Specifically, for membranes of co-dimension one in hydrostatic equilibrium embedded in a flat ambient Newton-Cartan spacetime. For such membranes, the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-02-13 Domingo Gallegos , Carlos Málaga