Quantum Mechanics as Hamilton–Killing Flows on a Statistical Manifold

The mathematical formalism of quantum mechanics is derived or “reconstructed” from more basic considerations of the probability theory and information geometry. The starting point is the recognition that probabilities are central to QM; the formalism of QM is derived as a particular kind of flow on a finite dimensional statistical manifold—a simplex. The cotangent bundle associated to the simplex has a natural symplectic structure and it inherits its own natural metric structure from the information geometry of the underlying simplex. We seek flows that preserve (in the sense of vanishing Lie derivatives) both the symplectic structure (a Hamilton flow) and the metric structure (a Killing flow). The result is a formalism in which the Fubini–Study metric, the linearity of the Schrödinger equation, the emergence of complex numbers, Hilbert spaces and the Born rule are derived rather than postulated.

Charge algebra for non-abelian large gauge symmetries at O(r)

Asymptotic symmetries of gauge theories are known to encode infrared properties of radiative fields. In the context of tree-level Yang-Mills theory, the leading soft behavior of gluons is captured by large gauge symmetries with parameters that are O(1) in the large r expansion towards null infinity. This relation can be extended to subleading order provided one allows for large gauge symmetries with O(r) gauge parameters. The latter, however, violate standard asymptotic field fall-offs and thus their interpretation has remained incomplete. We improve on this situation by presenting a relaxation of the standard asymptotic field behavior that is compatible with O(r) gauge symmetries at linearized level. We show the extended space admits a symplectic structure on which O(1) and O(r) charges are well defined and such that their Poisson brackets reproduce the corresponding symmetry algebra.

The Lagrange–Charpit Theory of the Hamilton–Jacobi Problem

The Lagrange–Charpit theory is a geometric method of determining a complete integral by means of a constant of the motion of a vector field defined on a phase space associated to a nonlinear PDE of first order. In this article, we establish this theory on the symplectic structure of the cotangent bundle $$T^{*}Q$$ T ∗ Q of the configuration manifold Q. In particular, we use it to calculate explicitly isotropic submanifolds associated with a Hamilton–Jacobi equation.

An Infinite Family of Compact, Complete, and Locally Affine k-Symplectic Manifolds of Dimension Three

We study the complete, compact, locally affine manifolds equipped with a k-symplectic structure, which are the quotients of Rn(k+1) by a subgroup Γ of the affine group A(n(k+1)) of Rn(k+1) acting freely and properly discontinuously on Rn(k+1) and leaving invariant the k-symplectic structure, then we construct and give some examples and properties of compact, complete, locally affine two-symplectic manifolds of dimension three.

Symplectic Geometry of the Koopman Operator

We consider the Koopman operator generated by an invertible transformation of a space with a finite countably additive measure. If the square of this transformation is ergodic, then the orthogonal Koopman operator is a symplectic transformation on the real Hilbert space of square summable functions with zero mean. An infinite set of quadratic invariants of the Koopman operator is specified, which are pairwise in involution with respect to the corresponding symplectic structure. For transformations with a discrete spectrum and a Lebesgue spectrum, these quadratic invariants are functionally independent and form a complete involutive set, which suggests that the Koopman transform is completely integrable.

Riemannian-polarized k-symplectic manifolds

In this paper, we give an analogue of the Hermitian structure in the almost complex case, on an [Formula: see text]-dimensional manifold endowed with an almost [Formula: see text]-complex metric. Also, we study the compatibility between Riemannian metric and polarized [Formula: see text]-symplectic structure. Also, we study some properties of an almost [Formula: see text]-complex structure. Moreover, we give an equivalence between almost [Formula: see text]-complex structures, [Formula: see text]-almost tangent structures and [Formula: see text]-almost cotangent structures.

Symplectic-Structure-Preserving Uncertain Differential Equations

Uncertain differential equations are important mathematical models in uncertain environments. This paper investigates uncertain multi-dimensional and multiple-factor differential equations. First, the solvability of the equations is analyzed. The α-path distributions and expected values of solutions are given. Then, structure preserving uncertain differential equations, uncertain Hamiltonian systems driven by Liu processes, which possess a kind of uncertain symplectic structures, are presented. A symplectic scheme with six-order accuracy and a Yao-Chen algorithm are applied to design an algorithm to solve uncertain Hamiltonian systems. At last, numerical experiments are given to investigate four uncertain Hamiltonian systems, which highlight the efficiency of our algorithm.