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Microgels are soft microparticles that often exhibit thermoresponsiveness and feature a transformation at a critical temperature, referred to as the volume phase transition temperature. The question of whether this transformation occurs as…

We use the heat kernel (on differential forms) on a compact Riemannian manifold to assign a real number to a k-tuple of cycles on the manifold satisfying certain conditions. If k is 2, this number is the ordinary topological linking number,…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Bruno Harris

The generating function method is applied to the trace of the heat kernel and the one-loop effective action derived from the covariant perturbation theory. The basis of curvature invariants of second order for the heat kernel (Green…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Andrei Barvinsky , Yuri Gusev

The paper is devoted to a local heat kernel, which is a special part of the standard heat kernel. Locality means that all considerations are produced in an open convex set of a smooth Riemannian manifold. We study such properties and…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-03-29 A. V. Ivanov

Quantum Brownian motion model is a typical model in the study of nonequilibrium quantum thermodynamics. Entropy is one of the most fundamental physical concepts in thermodynamics. In this work, by solving the quantum Langevin equation, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-08-11 Tian Qiu , H. T. Quan

Working within the framework of the covariant perturbation theory, we obtain the coincidence limit of the heat kernel of an elliptic second order differential operator that is applicable to a large class of quantum field theories. The basis…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-12-18 Yuri V. Gusev

Bayesian Optimization (BO) has the potential to solve various combinatorial tasks, ranging from materials science to neural architecture search. However, BO requires specialized kernels to effectively model combinatorial domains. Recent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Colin Doumont , Victor Picheny , Viacheslav Borovitskiy , Henry Moss

On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the beginning of the revolutionary contributions to physics by Einstein, I am happy to respond to a problem posed by him in 1905. He said: In this paper it will be shown that according to the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Elias P. Gyftopoulos

We obtain matching two sided estimates of the heat kernel on a connected sum of parabolic manifolds, each of them satisfying the Li-Yau estimate. The key result is the on-diagonal upper bound of the heat kernel at a central point. Contrary…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-08-05 Alexander Grigor'yan , Satoshi Ishiwata , Laurent Saloff-Coste

The quantum Brownian motion of a single neutral particle with nonzero electric dipole moment placed in a photon gas at fixed temperature and close to a conducting wall is here examined. The interaction of the particle with the photon field…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-06-23 G. H. S. Camargo , V. A. De Lorenci , A. L. Ferreira Junior , C. C. H. Ribeiro

We study a class of commuting Markov kernels whose simplest element describes the movement of $k$ particles on a discrete circle of size $n$ conditioned to not intersect each other. Such Markov kernels are related to the quantum cohomology…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-05-15 Jérémie Guilhot , Cédric Lecouvey , Pierre Tarrago

We show that, on a complete, connected and non-compact Riemannian manifold of non-negative Ricci curvature, the solution to the heat equation with $L^{1}$ initial data behaves asymptotically as the mass times the heat kernel. In contrast to…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-02-10 Alexander Grigor'yan , Effie Papageorgiou , Hong-Wei Zhang

We study the boundary trace processes of reflected diffusions on uniform domains. We obtain stable-like heat kernel estimates for such a boundary trace process when the diffusion on the underlying ambient space satisfies sub-Gaussian heat…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-02-24 Naotaka Kajino , Mathav Murugan

Heat kernels arise in a variety of contexts including probability, geometry, and functional analysis; the automorphic heat kernel is particularly important in number theory and string theory. The typical construction of an automorphic heat…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2021-07-28 Amy T. DeCelles

Quantum theory can be formulated as a theory of operations, more specific, of complex represented operations from real Lie groups. Hilbert space eigenvectors of acting Lie operations are used as states or particles. The simplest simple Lie…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Heinrich Saller

The Liouville Brownian motion (LBM), recently introduced by Garban, Rhodes and Vargas and in a weaker form also by Berestycki, is a diffusion process evolving in a planar random geometry induced by the Liouville measure $M_\gamma$, formally…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-10-05 Sebastian Andres , Naotaka Kajino

We revisit the Caldeira-Leggett model of quantum Brownian motion with Ohmic spectral density, and derive an additional contribution to the decoherence kernel in a new high-temperature limit at arbitrarily large cut-off frequency. This…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-21 Graeme Pleasance , Erik Aurell , Francesco Petruccione

We give sharp asymptotic estimates at infinity of all radial partial derivatives of the heat kernel on H-type groups. As an application, we give a new proof of the discreteness of the spectrum of some natural sub-Riemannian…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2022-05-11 Tommaso Bruno , Mattia Calzi

We define an equation on a simple graph which is an extension of Tanaka equation and the skew Brownian motion equation. We then apply the theory of transition kernels developped by Le Jan and Raimond and show that all the solutions can be…

Probability · Mathematics 2011-10-04 Hatem Hajri

Brownian motion of free particles on curved surfaces is studied by means of the Langevin equation written in Riemann normal coordinates. In the diffusive regime we find the same physical behavior as the one described by the diffusion…