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At first we introduce the space-time manifold and we compare some aspects of Riemannian and Lorentzian geometry such as the distance function and the relations between topology and curvature. We then define spinor structures in general…

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The gravitational time advancement is a natural but a consequence of curve space-time geometry. In the present work the expressions of gravitational time advancement have been obtained for geodesic motions. The situation when the distance…

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The method of variational bootstrapping, based on canonical variational completion, allows one to construct a Lagrangian for a physical theory depending on two sets of field variables, starting from a guess of the field equations for only…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-06-17 Ludovic Ducobu , Nicoleta Voicu

The computation of the index of the Hessian of the action functional in semi-Riemannian geometry at geodesics with two variable endpoints is reduced to the case of a fixed final endpoint. Using this observation, we give an elementary proof…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-10-31 Paolo Piccione , Daniel Victor Tausk

Random flights (also called run-and-tumble walks or transport processes) represent finite velocity random motions changing direction at any Poissonian time. These models in d-dimension, can be studied giving a general formulation of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-10-16 Luca Angelani , Alessandro De Gregorio , Roberto Garra , Francesco Iafrate

Continuous-time random walks (CTRW) play important role in understanding of a wide range of phenomena. However, most theoretical studies of these models concentrate only on stationary-state dynamics. We present a new theoretical approach,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-14 Anatoly B. Kolomeisky

The asymptotic behavior of an extended family of integral geometric random functionals, including spatiotemporal Minkowski functionals under moving levels, is analyzed in this paper. Specifically, sojourn measures of spatiotemporal…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-02-17 N. N. Leonenko , M. D. Ruiz-Medina

This work is the first step in a two-part investigation of real-time replica wormholes. Here we study the associated real-time gravitational path integral and construct the variational principle that will define its saddle-points. We also…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-06-23 Sean Colin-Ellerin , Xi Dong , Donald Marolf , Mukund Rangamani , Zhencheng Wang

We prove the transversality result necessary for defining local Morse chain complexes with finite cyclic group symmetry. Our arguments use special regularized distance functions constructed using classical covering lemmas, and an inductive…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2018-09-18 Doris Hein , Umberto L. Hryniewicz , Leonardo Macarini

We describe a new construction of a family of measures on a group with the same Poisson boundary. Our approach is based on applying Markov stopping times to an extension of the original random walk.

Probability · Mathematics 2012-09-20 Behrang Forghani

General covariant expressions for measurable angles, distances, velocities, and accelerations are provided in terms of fundamental parameters that can be applied in any setup. The relativistic aberration of light relationship is presented…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-25 Dmitri Lebedev , Kayll Lake

Motivated by the use of degenerate Jacobi metrics for the study of brake orbits and homoclinics, we develop a Morse theory for geodesics in conformal metrics having conformal factors vanishing on a regular hypersurface of a Riemannian…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2015-03-20 R. Giambò , F. Giannoni , P. Piccione

We give a method for computing the iterated Laplace transform of the sojourn time in an union of intervals for linear diffusion processes. This random variable comes from a model occurring in biology concerning the clustering of membrane…

Probability · Mathematics 2014-02-14 Aimé Lachal

The fundamental physical object of the Global Time Theory is a three-dimensional curved space dynamically developing in global time. The equations of its dynamics are derived from the Lagrangian, and the Hamiltonian of ravitation turns out…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 D. E. Burlankov

The Eulerian variational formulation of the gyrokinetic system with electrostatic turbulence is presented in general spatial coordinates by extending our previous work [H. Sugama, {\it et al}., Phys.\ Plasmas {\bf 25}, 102506 (2018)]. The…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-06-19 H. Sugama , S. Matsuoka , M. Nunami , S. Satake

Modified gravity theories have been suggested to address the limitations of general relativity, each exhibiting differences, particularly in their strong-field limits. Nonetheless, there lacks effective means to distinguish or test these…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-26 Zhen Zhang , Rui Zhang

Comparing with traditional fixed formation for a group of dynamical systems, time-varying formation can produce the following benefits: i) covering the greater part of complex environments; ii) collision avoidance. This paper studies the…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-07-27 Ming-Feng Ge , Zhi-Hong Guan , Chao Yang , Tao Li , Yan-Wu Wang

Morse spacetime is a model of singular Lorentzian manifold, built upon a Morse function which serves as a global time function outside its critical points. The Borde-Sorkin conjecture states that a Morse spacetime is causally continuous if…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-06-25 Lucas Dahinden , Liang Jin

We address the question whether Bohmian trajectories exist for all times. Bohmian trajectories are solutions of an ordinary differential equation involving a wavefunction obeying either the Schroedinger or the Dirac equation. Some…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Stefan Teufel , Roderich Tumulka

Many records in environmental sciences exhibit asymmetric trajectories and there is a need for simple and tractable models which can reproduce such features. In this paper we explore an approach based on applying both a time change and a…

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