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For a SU(N) Yang-Mills theory, we present variational calculations using gaussian wave functionals combined with an approximate projection on gauge invariant states. The projection amounts to correcting the energy of the gaussian states by…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 C. Heinemann , E. Iancu , C. Martin , D. Vautherin

E. Noether's general analysis of conservation laws has to be completed in a Lagrangian theory with local gauge invariance. Bulk charges are replaced by fluxes of superpotentials. Gauge invariant bulk charges may subsist when distinguished…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 B. Julia , S. Silva

We construct a manifestly diffeomorphism invariant Wilsonian (Exact) Renormalization Group for classical gravity, and begin the construction for quantum gravity. We demonstrate that the effective action can be computed without gauge fixing…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-06-08 Tim R. Morris , Anthony W. H. Preston

Hamilton's action principle is formulated and extended in conformity with the gauge transformations underlying Weyl's geometry. The extended principle characterizes infinitely many equally likely trajectories with a particle traveling along…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-11-15 S. R. Vatsya

A parametrization of gauge fields on complex projective spaces of arbitrary dimension is given as a generalization of the two-dimensional case. Gauge transformations act homogeneously on the fields, facilitating a manifestly gauge-invariant…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-11-18 Dimitra Karabali , Antonina Maj , V. P. Nair

We consider the Hamiltonian constraint formulation of classical field theories, which treats spacetime and the space of fields symmetrically, and utilizes the concept of momentum multivector. The gauge field is introduced to compensate for…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-05-04 Vaclav Zatloukal

In this paper a fluid-structure interaction problem for the incompressible Newtonian fluid is studied. We prove the convergence of an iterative process with respect to the computational domain geometry. In our previous works on numerical…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-04-11 Anna Hundertmark

We define a formal Riemannian metric on a given conformal class of metrics on a closed Riemann surface. We show interesting formal properties for this metric, in particular the curvature is nonpositive and the Liouville energy is…

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A variational representation for functionals of G-Brownian motion is established by a finite-dimensional approximate technique. As an application of the variational representation, we obtain a large deviation principle for stochastic flows…

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The aim of this paper is to give a firm and clear proof of the existence in the background field framework of a gauge invariant effective action for any gauge theory ({\it background gauge equivalence}). Here by effective action we mean a…

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We present a theoretical method to generate a highly accurate {\em time-independent} Hamiltonian governing the finite-time behavior of a time-periodic system. The method exploits infinitesimal unitary transformation steps, from which…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-05-30 Michael Vogl , Pontus Laurell , Aaron D. Barr , Gregory A. Fiete

The effective action of a Higgs theory should be gauge-invariant. However, the quantum and/or thermal contributions to the effective potential seem to be gauge-dependent, posing a problem for its physical interpretation. In this paper, we…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 S. -H. Henry Tye , Yan Vtorov-Karevsky

In this paper we consider the quantization of a scalar field coupled to gravity at one loop order. We investigate the divergences appearing in the mass (i.e. phi^2) term in the effective action. We use the Vilkovisky-DeWitt effective action…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-02-04 P. T. Mackay , D. J. Toms

We study matrix elements of Fourier-transformed straight infinite Wilson lines as a way to calculate gauge invariant tree-level amplitudes with off-shell gluons. The off-shell gluons are assigned "polarization vectors" which (in the Feynman…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-19 Piotr Kotko

In this review we briefly summarize the so-called effective fluid approach, which is a compact framework that can be used to describe a plethora of different modified gravity models as general relativity (GR) and a dark energy (DE) fluid.…

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We study the renormalization flow of generic actions that depend on the invariants of the field strength tensor of an abelian gauge field. While the Maxwell action defines a Gaussian fixed point, we search for further non-Gaussian fixed…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-11-15 Holger Gies , Julian Schirrmeister

A gauge-invariant Wigner quantum mechanical theory is obtained by applying the Weyl-Stratonovich transform to the von Neumann equation for the density matrix. The transform reduces to the Weyl transform in the electrostatic limit, when the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2022-11-24 Mihail Nedjalkov , Mauro Ballicchia , Robert Kosik , Josef Weinbub

The principle of local gauge invariance is applied to fractional wave equations and the interaction term is determined up to order $o(\bar{g})$ in the coupling constant $\bar{g}$. As a first application, based on the Riemann-Liouville…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 Richard Herrmann

The Wilson contour integral approach is applied to resum the soft gluon radiative correctins to the quark form factors in the Sudakov regime. The one-loop order results for the quark-photon (color singlet form factor) and quark-gluon (color…

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We examine the proposal by Grabowska and Kaplan (GK) to use the infinite gradient flow in the domain-wall formulation of chiral lattice gauge theories. We consider the case of Abelian theories in detail, for which L\"uscher's exact…

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