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The problem of a bouncing ball on a non-planar surface is investigated. We discovered that surface undulation adds a horizontal component to the impact force, which acquires a random character. Some aspects of Brownian motion are found in…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2023-05-03 Ana Laura Boscolo , Valdir Barbosa da Silva Junior , Luiz Antonio Barreiro

Let $Z^1$ and $Z^2$ be partition functions in the random polymer model in the same environment but driven by different underlying random walks. We give a comparison in concave stochastic order between $Z^1$ and $Z^2$ if one of the random…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-11-12 Stefan Junk

An extension of the method and results of A. Schwarz for evaluating the partition function of a quadratic functional is presented. This enables the partition functions to be evaluated for a wide class of quadratic functionals of interest in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-02-03 David H. Adams , Siddhartha Sen

Internal activity can fundamentally reshape the mechanical behavior of solids, yet its role in softening and failure remains incompletely understood. In this study, we investigate spontaneous deformations in activated solids via non-affine…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-03-19 Parswa Nath , Debankur Das , Surajit Sengupta , Debasish Chaudhuri

We describe a family of twisted partition functions for the relativistic spinning particle models. For suitable choices of fugacities this computes a refined Euler characteristics that counts the dimension of the physical states for…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-02-16 Eugenia Boffo , Pietro Antonio Grassi , Ondrej Hulik , Ivo Sachs

Spacelike surfaces in Generalized Robertson-Walker spacetimes whose mean curvature function satisfies a natural nonlinear inequality are analyzed. Several uniqueness and nonexistence results for such compact spacelike surfaces are proved.…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-09-09 Alfonso Romero , Rafael M. Rubio

This is an overview about natural sample spaces for differential equations driven by various noises. Appropriate sample spaces are needed in order to facilitate a random dynamical systems approach for stochastic differential equations. The…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2009-12-02 Jinqiao Duan , Xingye Kan , Bjaorn Schmalfuss

In the field of quantum information, classical optimizers play an important role. From experimentalists optimizing their physical devices to theorists exploring variational quantum algorithms, many aspects of quantum information require the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-17 Lucas Tecot , Cho-Jui Hsieh

We analyze the friction force exerted on a small probe particle sliding over an atomic-scale surface by means of a Green-Kubo relation and classical Molecular Dynamics simulations. We find that, on the atomic scale, the friction tensor can…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-06-17 Miru Lee , Richard L. C. Vink , Matthias Krüger

The class of effective actions exactly reproducing the conformal anomaly in 4D is considered. It is demonstrated that the freedom within this class can be fixed by the choice of the conformal gauge. The conformal invariant part of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 A. O. Barvinsky , A. G. Mirzabekian , V. V. Zhytnikov

A class of Gaussian processes generalizing the usual fractional Brownian motion for Hurst indices in (1/2,1) and multifractal Brownian motion introduced in Ralchenko and Shevchenko (Theory Probab Math Stat 80, 2010) and Boufoussi et al.…

Probability · Mathematics 2013-07-08 Jelena Ryvkina

We introduce fractional Brownian motion processes (fBm) as an alternative model for the turbulent index of refraction. These processes allow to reconstruct most of the index properties, but they are not differentiable. We overcome the…

Optics · Physics 2007-05-23 Dario G Perez

We study the interaction energy between two surfaces, one of them flat, the other describable as the composition of a small-amplitude corrugation and a slightly curved, smooth surface. The corrugation, represented by a spatially random…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-22 C. D. Fosco , F. C. Lombardo , F. D. Mazzitelli

We embark in a program of studying the problem of better approximating surfaces by triangulations(triangular meshes) by considering the approximating triangulations as finite metric spaces and the target smooth surface as their…

Graphics · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Emil Saucan

The aim of this paper is to correct a mistake in earlier work on the conformal invariance of Rarita-Schwinger operators and use the method of correction to develop properties of some conformally invariant operators in the Rarita-Schwinger…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2016-12-07 Chao Ding , John Ryan

The paper extends basic Einstein--Hilbert action by adding a newly proposed invariant constructed from a specific contraction between the Einstein tensor and the energy momentum tensor, encoding a non--minimal coupling between the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-02-09 Mihai Marciu , Dana Maria Ioan

The present paper deals with the interior solid-fluid interaction problem in harmonic regime with randomly perturbed boundaries. Analysis of the shape derivative and shape Hessian of vector- and tensor-valued functions is provided. Moments…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-09-30 Debopriya Mukherjee , Thanh Tran

Considering second variations about a given minimizer of a causal variational principle, we derive positive functionals in space-time. It is shown that the strict positivity of these functionals ensures that the minimizer is nonlinearly…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-02-19 Felix Finster

We draw attention to a novel type of geometric gauge invariance relating the autoparallel equations of motion in different Riemann-Cartan spacetimes with each other. The novelty lies in the fact that the equations of motion are invariant…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-03-17 H. Kleinert , A. Pelster

We study turbulence in the one-dimensional Burgers equation with a white-in-time, Gaussian random force that has a Fourier-space spectrum $\sim 1/k$, where $k$ is the wave number. From very-high-resolution numerical simulations, in the…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-10 Dhrubaditya Mitra , Jeremie Bec , Rahul Pandit , Uriel Frisch