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An extension of the classical action principle obtained in the framework of the gauge transformations, is used to describe the motion of a particle. This extension assigns many, but not all, paths to a particle. Properties of the particle…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. R. Vatsya

Geometrical formulation of classical mechanics with forces that are not necessarily potential-generated is presented. It is shown that a natural geometrical "playground" for a mechanical system of point particles lacking Lagrangian and/or…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-01-26 Denis Kochan

We investigate a theory of time-symmetric action-at-a-distance electrodynamic or gravitational interactions where the four-forces depend only on the electric charges, the rest masses, the position four-vectors, and the four-velocities of…

Classical Physics · Physics 2025-10-07 Calin Galeriu

We formulate a variational principle for non-relativistic quantum mechanics inspired by Gauss's principle of least constraint. We define a quantum constraint functional as the probability-weighted square deviation between the actual motion…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-30 Ning Liu

In the present work, we formulate a generalization of the Noether Theorem for action-dependent Lagrangian functions. The Noether's theorem is one of the most important theorems for physics. It is well known that all conservation laws,…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-06-17 M. J. Lazo , J. Paiva , G. S. F. Frederico

It is known that one can formulate an action in teleparallel gravity which is equivalent to general relativity, up to a boundary term. In this geometry we have vanishing curvature, and non-vanishing torsion. The action is constructed by…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-07-07 Daniel Blixt , Manuel Hohmann , Martin Krššák , Christian Pfeifer

We develop an information-theoretic reconstruction of quantum dynamics based on inference over action space. The fundamental object is a density of action states encoding the multiplicity of dynamical alternatives between configurations.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-11 Fabricio Souza Luiz , Marcos César de Oliveira

A variational framework for the quantization of gravitational fields is developed based on an extension of the stationary action principle. Within this framework, the Wheeler-DeWitt equation for the gravitational wave functional is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-08 Jianhao M. Yang

We treat a relativistically moving particle interacting with a quantum field from an open system viewpoint of quantum field theory by the method of influence functionals or closed-time-path coarse-grained effective actions. The particle…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Philip R. Johnson , B. L. Hu

Following the same steps made for a scalar field in a parallel publication, we propose a class of perturbative theories of quantum gravity based on fractional operators, where the kinetic operator of the graviton is either made of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-08-16 Gianluca Calcagni

The spin-dependent nature of the nuclear tensor force is studied in details within the relativistic Hartree-Fock approach. The relativistic formalism for the tensor force is supplemented with an additional Lorentz-invariant tensor formalism…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-12-19 Yao Yao Zong , Bao Yuan Sun

Action-dependent field theories are systems where the Lagrangian or Hamiltonian depends on new variables that encode the action. They model a larger class of field theories, including non-conservative behavior, while maintaining a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-05-01 Manuel de León , Jordi Gaset Rifà , Miguel C. Muñoz-Lecanda , Xavier Rivas , Narciso Román-Roy

An analysis of the path-integral approach to quantum theory motivates the hypothesis that two experiments with the same classical action should have dual ontological descriptions. If correct, this hypothesis would not only constrain…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-08-04 K. B. Wharton , D. J. Miller , Huw Price

We develop a proposal for a theory of simplicial gravity with spinors as the fundamental configuration variables. The underlying action describes a mechanical system with finitely many degrees of freedom, the system has a Hamiltonian and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-12-09 Wolfgang M. Wieland

A non-geometrical (but with curved space) theory of gravitation characterized by a vector field representing gravitational matter and a metric tensor presenting space is presented. It is derived from a more general theory of matter and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-03-13 Boris Hikin

Hamilton's action principle is formulated and extended in conformity with the gauge transformations underlying Weyl's geometry. The extended principle characterizes infinitely many equally likely trajectories with a particle traveling along…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-11-15 S. R. Vatsya

Classical functional calculus is primarily spectral, capturing eigenvalue information through resolvent methods while largely ignoring nilpotent structure. Building on the projector-nilpotent characterization developed in our companion…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-14 Shih-Yu Chang

Recently, it was shown that the quantum effects of the matter, could be used to determine the conformal degree of freedom of the space-time metric. So both gravity and quantum are geometrical features. Gravity determines the causal…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 Fatimah Shojai , Ali Shojai , Mehdi Golshani

Tensor models in various forms are being studied as models of quantum gravity. Among them the canonical tensor model has a canonical pair of rank-three tensors as dynamical variables, and is a pure constraint system with first-class…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-16 Naoki Sasakura

This is a non-standard exposition of the main notions of quantum mechanics and quantum field theory including some recent results. It is based on the algebraic approach where the starting point is a star-algebra and on the geometric…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-06-21 Igor Frolov , Albert Schwarz