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When tunneling occurs out of generic initial states, a significant fraction of probability is lost at early times during which the dynamics is governed by excited resonance states. However, first-principles analyses based on path integrals…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-11-13 Joshua Lin , Bruno Scheihing-Hitschfeld , Thomas Steingasser

Among various variants of the traveling salesman problem, the s-t-path graph TSP has the special feature that we know the exact integrality ratio, 3/2, and an approximation algorithm matching this ratio. In this paper, we go below this…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2018-09-18 Vera Traub , Jens Vygen

We study a pathwise integral with respect to paths of finite quadratic variation, defined as the limit of non-anticipative Riemann sums for gradient-type integrands. We show that the integral satisfies a pathwise isometry property,…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-03-28 Anna Ananova , Rama Cont

Most quantum field theories are not exactly solvable. In this paper show the statistical equivalence of the standard exponential path integral to products of Heaviside functions, i.e. a product of specially tuned uniform distributions. This…

General Physics · Physics 2013-07-01 Timothy D. Andersen

Functional integrals are central to modern theories ranging from quantum mechanics and statistical thermodynamics to biology, chemistry, and finance. In this work we present a new method for calculating functional integrals based on a…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-09-22 Amos A. Hari , Sefi Givli

We discuss the interpretation of path integral optimization as a uniformization problem in even dimensions. This perspective allows for a systematical construction of the higher-dimensional path integral complexity in holographic conformal…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-04-18 Hugo A. Camargo , Pawel Caputa , Pratik Nandy

Using rough path theory, we provide a pathwise foundation for stochastic It\^o integration, which covers most commonly applied trading strategies and mathematical models of financial markets, including those under Knightian uncertainty. To…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-01-04 Andrew L. Allan , Chong Liu , David J. Prömel

We provide exact formulas for the depth of the quotient ring of powers of the edge ideal of an increasing weighted path.

Commutative Algebra · Mathematics 2026-04-15 Jiaxin Li , Dancheng Lu , Thanh Vu , Guangjun Zhu

Many least squares problems involve affine equality and inequality constraints. Although there are variety of methods for solving such problems, most statisticians find constrained estimation challenging. The current paper proposes a new…

Computation · Statistics 2013-10-22 Hua Zhou , Kenneth Lange

This paper describes an algorithm of interest. This is a preliminary version and we intend on writing a better descripition of it and getting bounds for its complexity.

Probability · Mathematics 2013-03-05 Christophe Andrieu , Nicolas Chopin , Arnaud Doucet , Sylvain Rubenthaler

We provide a new paradigm for quantum simulation that is based on path integration that allows quantum speedups to be observed for problems that are more naturally expressed using the path integral formalism rather than the conventional…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-15 Serene Shum , Nathan Wiebe

We give a new proof of the trace formula for regular graphs. Our approach is inspired by path integral approach in quantum mechanics, and calculations are mostly combinatorial.

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Pavel Mnev

The Path Contraction and Cycle Contraction problems take as input an undirected graph $G$ with $n$ vertices, $m$ edges and an integer $k$ and determine whether one can obtain a path or a cycle, respectively, by performing at most $k$ edge…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-03-12 R. Krithika , V. K. Kutty Malu , Prafullkumar Tale

We construct the path integral formula in terms of ``multi-periodic'' coherent state as an extension of the Nielsen-Rohrlich formula for spin. We make an exact calculation of the formula and show that, when a parameter corresponding to the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 Kazuyuki Fujii , Kunio Funahashi

A path-integral hybrid Monte Carlo approach with enveloping bridging potentials (PIHMC-EBP) is proposed for calculating numerically exact tunneling splittings in molecular systems. The central idea is to construct an approximately…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-04-15 Yu-Chen Wang , Jeremy O. Richardson

This paper is devoted to first-order algorithms for smooth convex optimization with inexact gradients. Unlike the majority of the literature on this topic, we consider the setting of relative rather than absolute inexactness. More…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-10-03 Nikita Kornilov , Eduard Gorbunov , Mohammad Alkousa , Fedor Stonyakin , Pavel Dvurechensky , Alexander Gasnikov

We propose a new method to evaluate the effective potential in the path integral for the fixed-energy amplitude as well as for the pseudotime evolution kernel in the formalism by Duru and Kleinert. Restriction to the postpoint or the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-08-02 Seiji Sakoda

We prove an extension to the classical continuity theorem in rough paths. We show that two $p$-rough paths are close in all levels of iterated integrals provided the first $\lfl p \rfl$ terms are close in a uniform sense. Applications…

Probability · Mathematics 2013-11-06 Terry Lyons , Weijun Xu

The identification of physical degrees of freedom is sometimes obscured in the path integral formalism, and this makes it difficult to impose some constraints or to do some approximations. I review a number of cases where the difficulty is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 F. Palumbo

Single Source Shortest Paths ($\textrm{SSSP}$) is among the most well-studied problems in computer science. In the incremental (resp. decremental) setting, the goal is to maintain distances from a fixed source in a graph undergoing edge…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Barna Saha , Virginia Vassilevska Williams , Yinzhan Xu , Christopher Ye