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We introduce a stochastic global optimization method based on random walks on Grassmannian manifolds. To minimize a continuous objective $\ell:\mathbb{R}^d\rightarrow\mathbb{R}$, the method repeatedly samples random $k$-dimensional linear…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-27 Kartik Gupta , Stephen D. Miller , Pradeep Ravikumar , Ramarathnam Venkatesan

We derive an expression for the luminosity distance as a function of redshift for a flat Robertson-Walker spacetime perturbed by arbitrary scalar perturbations possibly produced by a modified gravity theory with two different scalar…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-03-12 Éanna É. Flanagan , Eran Rosenthal , Ira M. Wasserman

The Wright function, which arises in the theory of the space-time fractional diffusion equation, is an interesting mathematical object which has diverse connections with other special and elementary functions. The Wright function provides a…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2023-07-07 Dimiter Prodanov

We present an exact analytical solution of the Einstein equations with cosmological constant in a spatially flat Robertson-Walker metric. This is interpreted as an isotropic Lemaitre-type version of the cosmological Friedmann model.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-31 Ion I. Cotaescu , Dumitru N. Vulcanov

A minimum length universe is enforced via a diffusive Markovian field. Requiring the invariance of the proper time functional under spacetime transformations generated by such fields provides us with many new terms added to the Christoffel…

General Physics · Physics 2023-05-11 Dragana Pilipovic

A simple and very accurate method to approximate a function with a finite number of discontinuities is presented. This method relies on hyperbolic tangent functions of rational arguments as connecting functions at the discontinuities, each…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-07-27 E. Stella , C. L. Ladera , G. Donoso

This paper investigates the teleparallel Robertson--Walker (TRW) $F(T)$ gravity solutions for a scalar field source. We use the TRW $F(T)$ gravity field equations (FEs) for each $k$-parameter value case added by a scalar field to find new…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-01-24 Alexandre Landry

The spacetime evolution of massless spinning particles in a Robertson-Walker background is derived using the deterministic system of equations of motion due to Papapetrou, Souriau and Saturnini. A numerical integration of this system of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-08-30 C. Duval , T. Schucker

We discuss how to fix the gauge in the canonical treatment of Lagrangians, with finite number of degrees of freedom, endowed with time reparametrization invariance. The motion can then be described by an effective Hamiltonian acting on the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-17 Marco Cavaglià , Vittorio de Alfaro , Alexandre T. Filippov

We compute the late-time correlation functions on three-dimensional de Sitter spacetime for a higher-spin gravity theory. For this, we elaborate on the formulation to obtain the wave functional of universe from a dual conformal field…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-02-22 Heng-Yu Chen , Shi Chen , Yasuaki Hikida

The two dimensional dilaton gravity with the cosmological term and with an even number of matter fields minimally coupled to the gravity is considered. The exact solutions to the Wheeler-DeWitt equation are obtained in an explicit…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-08-02 Takayuki Hori

We consider the problem of approximating a function using Herglotz wave functions, which are a superposition of plane waves. When the discrepancy is measured in a ball, we show that the problem can essentially be solved by considering the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-08-22 Fernando Guevara Vasquez , China Mauck

We report a solution of the inverse Lagrangian problem for the first order Riccati differential equation by means of an analogy with the Friedmann equation of a suitable Friedmann-Lema\^itre-Robertson-Walker universe in general relativity.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-01-26 Valerio Faraoni

We present solutions to the Einstein-Klein Gordon system representing boson stars in the slow rotation approximation. By considering slow rotation we are able to reduce the number of equations yielding a system of ordinary differential…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-09 Jorge F. M. Delgado , Juan Carlos Degollado , Luis E. Martínez , Marcelo Salgado

We derive and solve exactly the Dyer-Roeder equation in a Friedman-Robertson-Walker cosmological model with non zero cosmological constant. To take into account non homogeneous distribution of matter we use the phenomenological clumpiness…

Astrophysics · Physics 2019-06-05 M. Demianski , R. de Ritis , A. A. Marino , E. Piedipalumbo

One of the major goals of cosmological observations is to test theories of structure formation. The most straightforward way to carry out such tests is to compute the likelihood function L, the probability of getting the data given the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Scott Dodelson , Lam Hui , Andrew Jaffe

The pointwise space-time behavior of the Green's function of the three-dimensional relativistic Boltzmann equation is studied in this paper. It is shown that the Green's function has a decomposition of the macroscopic diffusive waves and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-05-13 Yanchao Li , Mingying Zhong

We provide a detailed analysis of Friedmann-Robertson-Walker universes in a wide range of scalar-tensor theories of gravity. We apply solution-generating methods to three parametrised classes of scalar-tensor theory which lead naturally to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-28 John D. Barrow , Paul Parsons

Two-point functions for scalar and spinor fields are investigated in Einstein universe ($R \otimes S^{\sN-1}$). Equations for massive scalar and spinor two-point functions are solved and the explicit expressions for the two-point functions…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 T. Inagaki , K. Ishikawa , T. Muta

Consider, in dimension 3, a system of coupled Klein-Gordon equations with different speeds, and an arbitrary quadratic nonlinearity. We show, for data which are small, smooth, and localized, that a global solution exists, and that it…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2010-05-31 Pierre Germain