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The objective is a foundation of physics from the operationalization of its basic observables. We begin with classical and relativistic kinematics. Seizing on a programmatic proposal by Heinrich Hertz we arrive via quantification of…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2015-12-07 Bruno Hartmann

The quantum action (dynamical) principle is exploited to investigate the nature and origin of the Faddeev-Popov (FP) factor in gauge theories without recourse to path integrals. Gauge invariant as well as gauge non-invariant interactions…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Kanchana Limboonsong , Edouard B. Manoukian

The gravitational action is not always additive in the usual sense. We provide a general prescription for the change in action that results when different portions of the boundary of a spacetime are topologically identified. We discuss…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-22 Dieter Brill , Geoff Hayward

We consider some aspects of conformal symmetry in a metric-scalar-torsion system. It is shown that, for some special choice of the action, torsion acts as a compensating field and the full theory is conformally equivalent to General…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 J. A. Helayel-Neto , A. Penna-Firme , I. L. Shapiro

On the basis of a general action principle, we revisit the scale invariant field equation using the co-tensor relations by Dirac (1973). This action principle also leads to an expression for the scale factor $\lambda$, which corresponds to…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-10-31 Andre Maeder , Vesselin G. Gueorguiev

It is known that the Cardassian universe is successful in describing the accelerated expansion of the universe, but its dynamical equations are hard to get from the action principle. In this paper, we establish the connection between the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-05-31 Xiang-hua Zhai , Rui-hui Lin , Chao-jun Feng , Xin-zhou Li

The evolution equation is used as the fundamental equation of field theory, which is described entirely by the geometry of the four-dimensional space. The evolution kernel determines the covariant action of physical fields by the proper…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-07-19 Yuri Vladimirovich Gusev

In physics, there is a scalar function called the action which behaves like a cost function. When minimized, it yields the "path of least action" which represents the path a physical system will take through space and time. This function is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-06 Tim Strang , Isabella Caruso , Sam Greydanus

We derive simple practical procedures revealing the quantum behavior of angular momentum variables by the violation of classical upper bounds on the statistics. Data analysis is minimum and definite conclusions are obtained without…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-12-06 Alfredo Luis , Ángel Rivas

We introduce action-driven flows for causal variational principles, being a class of non-convex variational problems emanating from applications in fundamental physics. In the compact setting, H\"older continuous curves of measures are…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-05-27 Felix Finster , Franz Gmeineder

The present work proposes an alternative approach to the problem of the emergence of classicality. Typical approaches developed in the literature derive the classical behaviour of a quantum system from conditions that concern the value of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-11 Giuseppe Nisticò

Scalar-tensor theory has arbitrary functions of the scalar field in front of the geometric and scalar terms in the Lagrangain. The extent to which these arbitrary functions appear in the Wheeler-deWitt wavefunction of mini-super…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-11-29 Mark D. Roberts

We show that quantum theory (QT) is a substructure of classical probabilistic physics. The central quantity of the classical theory is Hamilton's function, which determines canonical equations, a corresponding flow, and a Liouville equation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-04-06 Ulf Klein

We present the variational action principle for initial value problems in classical, conservative-force point particle mechanics. We rigorously derive this formulation by taking the classical limit of the Schwinger-Keldysh expression for…

Classical Physics · Physics 2026-03-04 W. A. Horowitz , A. Rothkopf

The possibility of the fundamental interactions unification arises at the consideration of the field equation of the energy conservation if one takes into account Salam's effect. Such account results in the functional division between…

General Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Rinat G. Ragachurin

This paper investigates the geometric structure of higher-derivative formulations of classical mechanics. It is shown that every even-order formulation of classical mechanics higher than the second order is intrinsically variational, in the…

Classical Physics · Physics 2024-03-04 John W. Sanders

All quantum field theories that describe interacting bosonic elementary particles, share the feature that the zeroth order perturbation expansion describes non-interacting harmonic oscillators. This is explained in the paper. We then…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-12-18 Gerard t Hooft

The theory of causal fermion systems is a new physical theory which aims to describe a fundamental level of physical reality. Its mathematical core is the causal action principle. In this thesis, we develop a formalism which connects the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2020-06-26 Johannes Kleiner

Non-relativistic quantum mechanics is shown to emerge from classical mechanics through the requirement of a relativity principle based on special transformations acting on position and momentum uncertainties. These transformations keep the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Léon Brenig

One of the main results of Scale Relativity as regards the foundation of quantum mechanics is its explanation of the origin of the complex nature of the wave function. The Scale Relativity theory introduces an explicit dependence of…

General Physics · Physics 2013-11-13 Laurent Nottale , Marie-Noëlle Célérier