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These lecture notes are based on a set of six lectures that I gave in Edinburgh in 2008/2009 and they cover some topics in the interface between Geometry and Physics. They involve some unsolved problems and conjectures and I hope they may…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2010-09-27 Michael Atiyah

In this paper, an attempt is made to represent 5+1 dimensional gravity (via ADM formalism) in terms of the loop constructions introduced by the author in a companion paper. The "momenta" and "velocity" from the earlier paper, which were…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-05-28 Madhavan Venkatesh

Transformation equations for physical quantities that characterize plane electromagnetic wave propagation in transparent optical media are presented. The Doppler effect, and measurements performed by an observer moving with the wave are…

General Physics · Physics 2008-12-04 B. Rothenstein , A. De Sabata

Graph invariants provide a powerful analytical tool for investigation of abstract structures of graphs. They, combined in convenient relations, carry global and general information about a graph and its various substructures such as cycle…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2010-09-15 Zh. G. Nikoghosyan

These notes are for the proceedings of the NATO Advanced Study Insitutue on "Scale Invariance, Interfaces, and Non--Equilibrium Dynamics", held at the Isaac Newton Institute, 20--30 June 1994. The four lectures address a number of issues…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Mehran Kardar , Deniz Ertas

We construct a generalization of the quantum Hall effect, where particles move in four dimensional space under a SU(2) gauge field. This system has a macroscopic number of degenerate single particle states. At appropriate integer or…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2011-05-05 Shou-Cheng Zhang , Jiangping Hu

The theory of the effect of external fluctuation force on the stability and spatial distribution of mutually interacting and slowly evaporating charged drops, levitated in an electrodynamic balance, is presented using classical…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-07-07 Mohit Singh , Y. S. Mayya , Rochish Thaokar

The fourfold research proposal regards in particular: critical oriented percolation; random walk limit laws; neural networks with long-range connections; the ant in a labyrinth.

Probability · Mathematics 2015-11-06 Achillefs Tzioufas

These lectures notes give an introduction to the fast developing area of research dealing with perturbative descriptions of the gravitational instability in an expanding universe. I just sketch the outlines of some proofs, and many…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 F. R. Bouchet

This is a preprint of Chapter 2 in the following work: Marta Lewicka, A Course on Tug-of-War Games with Random Noise, 2020, Springer, reproduced with permission of Springer Nature Switzerland AG. We present the basic relation between the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-07-24 Marta Lewicka

Early turbulence in periodic cylinder arrays is of particular interest in many practical applications to enhance mixing and material/heat exchange. In this study, we reveal a new early transition pathway to a chaotic wavy state and drag…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-10-17 Lu Zhu , Rich R. Kerswell

In our previous paper, Real Polynomials with a Complex Twist [see http://archives.math.utk.edu/ICTCM/VOL28/A040/paper.pdf], we used advancements in computer graphics that allow us to easily illustrate more complete graphs of polynomial…

History and Overview · Mathematics 2018-05-16 Michael Warren , John Gresham , Bryant Wyatt

This is the contribution to Quarks'2018 conference proceedings. This contribution is devoted to the holographic description of chaos and quantum complexity in the strongly interacting systems out of equilibrium. In the first part of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-02-08 Dmitry S. Ageev

In the first part of the talk, I give a low-resolution overview of the current state of particle physics - the triumph of the Standard Model and its discontents. I review and re-endorse the remarkably direct and (to me) compelling argument…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-04-20 Frank Wilczek

We investigate the dynamics of a particle moving randomly along a disordered hetero-polymer subjected to rapid conformational changes which induce superdiffusive motion in chemical coordinates. We study the antagonistic interplay between…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 D. Brockmann , T. Geisel

The force distribution of jammed disordered packings has always been considered a central object in the physics of granular materials. However, many of its features are poorly understood. In particular, analytic relations to other key…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2014-09-15 Lin Bo , Romain Mari , Chaoming Song , Hernan A. Makse

We give a new, short proof of the regularity away from the nuclei of the electronic density of a molecule obtained in [1,2]. The new argument is based on the regularity properties of the Coulomb interactions underlined in [3,4] and on…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2021-04-30 Thierry Jecko

This is a set of four lectures devoted to simple ideas about turbulent transport, a ubiquitous non-equilibrium phenomenon. In the course similar to that given by the author in 2006 in Warwick [45], we discuss lessons which have been learned…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2008-06-12 Krzysztof Gawedzki

This is a comment on [G. Knight and R. Klages, Phys. Rev. E 84, 041135 (2011); also available at arXiv:1107.5293v2 [math-ph]].

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-11-29 Thomas Gilbert , David P. Sanders

The main topic is the development of a Fredholm theory in a new class of spaces called M-polyfolds. In the subsequent Volume II the theory will be generalized to an even larger class of spaces called polyfolds, which can also incorporate…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2014-07-14 Helmut H. Hofer , Kris Wysocki , Eduard Zehnder