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We introduce a formalism to describe 2D-Potentials for 2D-matter (or charge) distributions with arbitrary elliptical symmetry including varying eccentricity and twisting of the iso-density curves. We use this approach to describe elliptical…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 T. Schramm

We study gravitational wave emission, zoom-whirl behavior and the resulting spin of the remnant black hole in highly boosted collisions of equal-mass, non spinning black-hole binaries with generic impact parameter.

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-05-29 U. Sperhake , V. Cardoso , F. Pretorius , E. Berti , T. Hinderer , N. Yunes

This paper concerns the time-harmonic direct and inverse elastic scattering by an extended rigid elastic body surrounded by a finite number of point-like obstacles. We first justify the point-interaction model for the Lam\'{e} operator…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-11-26 Guanghui Hu , Andrea Mantile , Mourad Sini , Tao Yin

Physical collisions between stars occur frequently in dense star clusters, either via close encounters between two single stars, or during strong dynamical interactions involving binary stars. Here we study stellar collisions that occur…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 J. M. Fregeau , P. Cheung , S. F. Portegies Zwart , F. A. Rasio

The behavior of dynamical system interacting with non-equilibrium medium is investigated. Formally exact kinetic equations are derived for the statistical operator of the dynamical system and the macroscopic parameters of the medium. In the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-12-30 Mikheil Zviadadze , Alexander kvirikadze

A rigidity theory is developed for frameworks in a metric space with two types of distance constraints. Mixed sparsity graph characterisations are obtained for the infinitesimal and continuous rigidity of completely regular bar-joint…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2019-08-26 Anthony Nixon , Stephen Power

An analysis of composite inertial motion (relativistic sum) within the framework of special relativity leads to the conclusion that every translational motion must be the symmetrically composite relativistic sum of a finite number of quanta…

General Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Ernst Karl Kunst

Kinetics of collision processes with linear mixing rules are investigated analytically. The velocity distribution becomes self-similar in the long time limit and the similarity functions have algebraic or stretched exponential tails. The…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Daniel ben-Avraham , Eli Ben-Naim , Katja Lindenberg , Alexandre Rosas

We investigate the static and the dynamic properties of an binary, equimolar, size-symmetric mixture of ultrasoft particles in the vicinity of the critical point of the system. Based on the generalized exponential potential (GEM) of order…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-07-25 Tanmay Biswas , Gerhard Kahl , Gaurav P. Shrivastav

The inclusion of rigid elements into elastic composites may lead to superior mechanical properties for the equivalent elastic continuum, such as, for instance, extreme auxeticity. To allow full exploitation of these properties, a tool for…

Classical Physics · Physics 2025-01-16 Luca Viviani , Davide Bigoni , Andrea Piccolroaz

We propose here that certain observational features of granular matter in the infrared limit, exhibiting the phenomenon of {\it jamming}, arise from an underlying effective general relativistic description. The proposal stems from the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-08-30 Soumendra Kishore Roy , Pratyusava Baral , Ratna Koley , Parthasarathi Majumdar

A geometric theory for spacetimes whose world lines associated with physical particles have an upper bound for the proper acceleration is developed. After some fundamental remarks on the requirements that the classical dynamics for point…

General Physics · Physics 2015-12-16 Ricardo Gallego Torromé

In this paper, we investigate well-posedness of time-harmonic scattering of elastic waves by unbounded rigid rough surfaces in three dimensions. The elastic scattering is caused by an $L^2$ function with a compact support in the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-01-30 Guanghui Hu , Tianjiao Wang , Xiang Xu , Yue Zhao

The scattering of electromagnetic waves by an obstacle is analyzed through a set of partial differential equations combining the Maxwell's model with the mechanics of fluids. Solitary type EM waves, having compact support, may easily be…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-03-28 Daniele Funaro , Eugene Kashdan

Mutual scattering arises when multiple waves intersect within a finite scattering object, resulting in cross-interference between the incident and scattered waves. By measuring mutual scattering, we determine the complex-valued scattering…

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High-resolution numerical simulations of galaxy mergers are analysed. The global structure and isophotal shapes of the merger remnants are in good agreement with the observations. Whereas equal-mass mergers lead to anisotropic, boxy…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Andreas Burkert , Thorsten Naab

Quantum mechanics is sensitive to the geometry of the underlying space. Here, we present a framework for quantum scattering of a non-relativistic particle confined to a two-dimensional space. When the motion manifold hosts localized…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-19 Lars Meschede , Benjamin Schwager , Dominik Schulz , Jamal Berakdar

For a successful detection of gravitational waves by LISA, it is essential to construct theoretical waveforms in a reliable manner. We discuss gravitational waves from an extreme mass ratio binary system which is expected to be a promising…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-11-26 Yasushi Mino

We discuss and compare several geometric structures which imply an upper bound to the acceleration of a particle measured in its rest system. While all of them have the same implications on the motion of a point particle, they differ in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Toller