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In view of the recent quest for well-behaved nonlinear extensions of the traditional Schroedinger-von Neumann unitary dynamics that could provide fundamental explanations of recent experimental evidence of loss of quantum coherence at the…

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We examine domino tilings of rectangular boards, which are in natural bijection with perfect matchings of grid graphs. This leads to the study of their associated perfect matching polytopes, and we present some of their properties, in…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2009-12-15 Matthias Beck , Christian Haase , Steven V. Sam

This paper investigates the relationship between quantization of measures and metric mean dimension of topological dynamical systems. We introduce the concept of mean quantization dimension for invariant probability measures and establish a…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2026-05-21 Maria Carvalho , Gustavo Pessil

We consider a static self-gravitating perfect fluid system in Lovelock gravity theory. For a spacial region on the hypersurface orthogonal to static Killing vector, by the Tolman's law of temperature, the assumption of a fixed total…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-19 Li-Ming Cao , Jianfei Xu

In the variational principle leading to the Euler equation for a perfect fluid, we can use the method of undetermined multiplier for holonomic constraints representing mass conservation and adiabatic condition. For a dissipative fluid, the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2012-06-03 Hiroki Fukagawa , Youhei Fujitani

In a region $R$ consisting of unit squares, a domino is the union of two adjacent squares and a (domino) tiling is a collection of dominoes with disjoint interior whose union is the region. The flip graph $\mathcal{T}(R)$ is defined on the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-11-22 Qianqian Liu , Jingfeng Wang , Chunmei Li , Heping Zhang

In this paper, we develop a variational foundation for stochastic thermodynamics of finite-dimensional, continuous-time systems. Requiring the second law (non-negative average total entropy production) systematically yields a consistent…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-05-07 Héctor Vaquero del Pino , François Gay-Balmaz , Hiroaki Yoshimura , Lock Yue Chew

We study the classical dimer model on rhombic Penrose tilings, whose edges and vertices may be identified with those of a bipartite graph. We find that Penrose tilings do not admit perfect matchings (defect-free dimer coverings). Instead,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-01-15 Felix Flicker , Steven H. Simon , S. A. Parameswaran

We study large random matrices with i.i.d. entries conditioned to have prescribed row and column sums (margins), a problem connected to relative entropy minimization, Schr\"odinger bridges, contingency tables, and random graphs with given…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-07-02 Hanbaek Lyu , Sumit Mukherjee

Starting from the classic contraction mapping principle, we establish a general, flexible, variational setting that turns out to be applicable to many situations of existence in Differential Equations. We show its potentiality with some…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-09-15 Pablo Pedregal

Answering a question of Benjamini & Schramm [8], we show that the Poisson boundary of any planar, uniquely absorbing (e.g. one-ended and transient) graph with bounded degrees can be realised geometrically as a circle, namely as the boundary…

Probability · Mathematics 2014-01-24 Agelos Georgakopoulos

Variational and divergence symmetries are studied in this paper for the whole class of linear and nonlinear equations of maximal symmetry, and the associated first integrals are given in explicit form. All the main results obtained are…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-12-29 J. C. Ndogmo

We deliver a novel approach towards the variational description of Lagrangian mechanical systems subject to fractional damping by establishing a restricted Hamilton's principle. Fractional damping is a particular instance of non-local (in…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-05-15 Fernando Jiménez , Sina Ober-Blöbaum

We give an application of a topological dynamics version of multidimensional Brown's lemma to tiling theory: given a tiling of an Euclidean space and a finite geometric pattern of points $F$, one can find a patch such that, for each scale…

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The study of stochastic variational principles involves the problem of constructing fixed-endpoint and adapted variations of semimartingales. We provide a detailed construction of variations of semimartingales that are not only fixed at…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-09-11 Archishman Saha

In this exposition, we consider the dimer problem on an infinite square lattice with partially non-periodic edge weights, which we refer to as the square lattice with interface. In particular, we compute an exact integral form of the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2022-02-10 Meredith Shea

The well known maximum-entropy principle due to Jaynes, which states that given mean parameters, the maximum entropy distribution matching them is in an exponential family, has been very popular in machine learning due to its "Occam's…

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Thermodynamics plays an important role in gravitational theories. It is a principle independent of the gravitational dynamics, and there is still no rigorous proof to show that it is consistent with the dynamical principle. We consider a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-08-27 Jie Jiang , Xiongjun Fang , Sijie Gao

We analyse a new notion of total anisotropic higher-order variation which, differently from the Total Generalized Variation by Bredies et al., quantifies for possibly non-symmetric tensor fields their variations at arbitrary order weighted…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-01-09 Simone Parisotto , Simon Masnou , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb

Firstly, we answer the problem 1 asked by Gutman and $\rm \acute{\ S}$piewak in \cite{gs20}, then we establish a double variational principle for mean dimension in terms of R$\bar{e}$nyi information dimension and show the order of $\sup$…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2022-05-25 Rui Yang , Ercai Chen , Xiaoyao Zhou