Generalization of Lagrangian dynamics

We speculate on a generalized dynamics described by an integral over action functionals that is a generalization of the standard functional integral. In a simple Gaussian case we obtain a certain differential equation for the measure of Feynman integral. We prove that the equation is satisfied for the spin zero field in one space-time dimension.     

Magnetohydrodynamics in a Riemann-Cartan space-time

By assuming that Maxwell's electromagnetic field equations are valid in a Riemann-Cartan space-time and by using a set of rules to transform from Riemannian kinematics to Riemann-Cartan kinematics, the kinematic aspects of magnetohydrodynamics in a Riemann-Cartan space-time are examined. If the electric conductivity of the fluid is infinite, then the magnetic field conservation laws still hold, but torsion affects the physical interpretation of the equation for proper charge density. A result, based on the Ricci identity foru _a and the first Bianchi identity, and describing differential rotation of a charged fluid in a Riemann space-time, is extended to a Riemann-Cartan space-time. The kinematic role played by torsion in this result is examined.     

Infinite sets of conservation laws for linear and nonlinear field equations

The relation between an infinite set of conservation laws of a linear field equation and the enveloping algebra of the space-time symmetry group is established. It is shown that each symmetric element of the enveloping algebra of the space-time symmetry group of a linear field equation generates a one-parameter group of symmetries of the field equation. The cases of the Maxwell and Dirac equations are studied in detail. Then it is shown that (at least in the sense of a power series in the coupling constant) the conservation laws of the linear case can be deformed to conservation laws of a nonlinear field equation which is obtained from the linear one by adding a nonlinear term invariant under the group of space-time symmetries. As an example, our method is applied to the Korteweg-de Vries equation and to the massless Thirring model.     

Linear perturbations of gauge fields

It is shown that under certain weak conditions (the vanishing of the field strength along a family of self-dual or anti-self-dual geodesic two-surfaces), in a curved or flat space-time, the linear perturbations of a given gauge field configuration can be expressed in terms of the solutions of a single second-order linear partial differential equation for a matrix potential. The particular case of the self-dual gauge fields is treated in some detail.     

Solving Space-Time Fractional Differential Equations by Using Modified Simple Equation Method

In this article,we establish new and more general traveling wave solutions of space-time fractional Klein–Gordon equation with quadratic nonlinearity and the space-time fractional breaking soliton equations using the modified simple equation method.The proposed method is so powerful and effective to solve nonlinear space-time fractional differential equations by with modified Riemann–Liouville derivative.     

De Donder-Weyl theory and a hypercomplex extension of quantum mechanics to field theory

A quantization of field theory based on the De Donder-Weyl (DW) covariant Hamiltonian formulation is discussed. A hypercomplex extension of quantum mechanics, in which the space-time Clifford algebra replaces that of the complex numbers, appears as a result of quantization of Poisson brackets on differential forms which were put forward for the DW theory earlier. The proposed covariant hypercomplex Schrödinger equation is shown to lead in the classical limit to the DW Hamilton-Jacobi equation and to obey the Ehrenfest principle in the sense that the DW canonical field equations are satisfied for expectation values of properly chosen operators.     

A stochastic approach to Wilson loops

Wilson loops exp (i A (x) dx) are investigated in two-dimensional Euclidean space-time. The electromagnetic vector potential A is regarded as a generalized random field given by the stochastic partial differential equation A = F where is a first-order differential operator and F is white noise. We give a rigorous definition of Wilson loops and examine the properties of the N-loop Schwinger functions.     

Analytical approximate solution for nonlinear space-time fractional Klein Gordon equation

The fractional derivatives in the sense of Caputo and the homotopy analysis method are used to construct an approximate solution for the nonlinear space-time fractional derivatives Klein-Gordon equation. The numerical results show that the approaches are easy to implement and accurate when applied to the nonlinear space-time fractional derivatives KleinGordon equation. This method introduces a promising tool for solving many space-time fractional partial differential equations. This method is efficient and powerful in solving wide classes of nonlinear evolution fractional order equations.     

Solutions to Class of Linear and Nonlinear Fractional Differential Equations

In this paper, the fractional auxiliary sub-equation expansion method is proposed to solve nonlinear fractional differential equations. To illustrate the effectiveness of the method, we discuss the space-time fractional Kd V equation, the space-time fractional RLW equation, the space-time fractional Boussinesq equation, and the(3+1)-spacetime fractional ZK equation. The solutions are expressed in terms of fractional hyperbolic and fractional trigonometric functions. These solutions are useful to understand the mechanisms of the complicated nonlinear physical phenomena and fractional differential equations. Among these solutions, some are found for the first time. The analytical solution of homogenous linear FDEs with constant coefficients are obtained by using the series and the Mittag–Leffler function methods. The obtained results recover the well-know solutions when α = 1.     

Spin 3/2 Field Equation: Separation and Solution in a Class of Lema?tre–Tolman–Bondi Cosmologies

The spin 3/2 field equation is studied in the general Lema?tre–Tolman–Bondi (LTB) space-time. The equation is separated by variable separation. The angular dependence factors out at the level of the general LTB metric. Due to spherical symmetry the separated angular equations coincide with those, previously integrated, relative to the Robertson–Walker and Schwarzschild metric. Separation of time and radial dependence is possible within a class of LTB cosmological models for which the physical radius is a product of a time and a radial function, the last one being further selected by the consistency condition of the radial equations. The separated time dependence, that can be integrated by series, results essentially unique. Instead the radial dependence can be reduced to two independent second order ordinary differential equations that still depend on an arbitrary radial function that is an integration function of the cosmological model. The generalization of the scheme to arbitrary spin field equation is suggested.     

Wave propagation according to higher order field equations I

A detailed study is made of wave propagation according to a sixth-order partial differential equation with complex masses proposed by Swieca and Marques, which presents a kind of generalized Klein-Gordon equation. The choice of definite Green's functions in the corresponding Yang-Feldman integral equation corresponds to a certain choice of boundary conditions for the allowed solutions of the corresponding partial differential equation. The advanced and retarded Green's functions used possess the anomalous feature of having non-zero values in the neighbourhoods of those, past or future parts of the light cone, for which traditional advanced and retarded Green's functions are zero. However, it is shown that a suitable averaging procedure provides the possibility of defining sets of functions, such that solutions of the Yang-Feldman equations belonging to this set possess the property that the future behaviour of the solution is determined by its asymptotic initial conditions. Certain features of the wave propagation, according to the equations considered, can be usefully compared with the properties of the solutions of the ordinary differential equation - and corresponding integral equation - which represents the equation of motion of a charged particle including the force for radiation reaction. The particle then has a certain “size”. Analogously the “non-local field equations” have solutions characterized by a certain “fundamental length” indicating the space-time distances for which averaging occurs. The admitted solutions of the field equations seem to represent a relativistic field with a “finite a number of degrees of freedom” within a finite volume.     

Spinor fields at spacelike infinity

The concept of a spinor structure at spacelike infinity is introduced for space-times which are asymptotically flat. It is shown how zero-rest-mass fields on space-time acquire smooth limits on this structure and that these limits satisfy certain differential equations characterized by the helicity and regularity of the field. The geometry of the limits of twistor fields is also discussed, and it seems possible that one can define the momentum and angular momentum of an asymptotically flat space-time in terms of a twistor space at spacelike infinity.     

Geometric field theory and weak Euler–Lagrange equation for classical relativistic particle-field systems

A manifestly covariant, or geometric, field theory of relativistic classical particle-field systems is developed. The connection between the space-time symmetry and energy-momentum conservation laws of the system is established geometrically without splitting the space and time coordinates; i.e., space-time is treated as one entity without choosing a coordinate system. To achieve this goal, we need to overcome two difficulties. The first difficulty arises from the fact that the particles and the field reside on different manifolds. As a result, the geometric Lagrangian density of the system is a function of the 4-potential of the electromagnetic fields and also a functional of the particles’ world lines. The other difficulty associated with the geometric setting results from the mass-shell constraint. The standard Euler–Lagrange (EL) equation for a particle is generalized into the geometric EL equation when the mass-shell constraint is imposed. For the particle-field system, the geometric EL equation is further generalized into a weak geometric EL equation for particles. With the EL equation for the field and the geometric weak EL equation for particles, the symmetries and conservation laws can be established geometrically. A geometric expression for the particle energy-momentum tensor is derived for the first time, which recovers the non-geometric form in the literature for a chosen coordinate system.     

(G'/G)-Expansion Method for Solving Fractional Partial Differential Equations in the Theory of Mathematical Physics

In this paper, the (G'/G)-expansion method is extended to solve fractional partial differential equations in the sense of modified Riemann-Liouville derivative. Based on a nonlinear fractional complex transformation, a certain fractional partial differential equation can be turned into another ordinary differential equation of integer order. For illustrating the validity of this method, we apply it to the space-time fractional generalized Hirota-Satsuma coupled KdV equations and the time-fractional fifth-order Sawada-Kotera equation. As a result, some new exact solutions for them are successfully established.     

A review of super riemannian space-time using differential forms

We analyse the content of curved super space-time, which consists of points labelled by four ordinary space-time variables and a set of anti-commuting quantities. A definition of a curved manifold including such variables is given, and a coordinate free formalism reviewed using the super space-time extended version of modern differential geometric techniques. Such a formalism allows the incorporation of internal symmetries in a geometric fashion. Finally we analyse the extended version of Einstein's source-free equation on this manifold, particularly in the linear approximation.     

Numerical solution of the conformable space-time fractional wave equation

In this paper, an efficient numerical method is considered for solving space-time fractional wave equation. The fractional derivatives are described in the conformable sense. The method is based on shifted Chebyshev polynomials of the second kind. Unknown function is written as Chebyshev series with the N term. The space-time fractional wave equation is reduced to a system of ordinary differential equations by using the properties of Chebyshev polynomials. The finite difference method is applied to solve this system of equations. Numerical results are provided to verify the accuracy and efficiency of the proposed approach.     

A simple technique for constructing exact solutions to nonlinear differential equations with conformable fractional derivative

The modified simple equation method is an interesting technique to find new and more general exact solutions to the fractional differential equations in nonlinear sciences. In this paper, the method is applied to construct exact solutions of (2+1)-dimensional conformable time-fractional Zoomeron equation and the conformable space-time fractional EW equation.     

Wave function of a free electron in a laser plasma via Riemannian geometry

The wave function of a free electron in a laser plasma described via Riemannian geometry is derived by solving the Dirac equation in the associated curved space-time. If the laser field vanishes, the wave function naturally reduces to the case in flat space-time.     

Picard–Fuchs Equations for Feynman Integrals

We present a systematic method to derive an ordinary differential equation for any Feynman integral, where the differentiation is with respect to an external variable. The resulting differential equation is of Fuchsian type. The method can be used within fixed integer space-time dimensions as well as within dimensional regularisation. We show that finding the differential equation is equivalent to solving a linear system of equations. We observe interesting factorisation properties of the D-dimensional Picard–Fuchs operator when D is specialised to integer dimensions.     

Geometric fermions

We study the Kähler-Dirac equation which linearizes the laplacian on the space of antisymmetric tensor fields. In flat space-time it is equivalent to the Dirac equation with internal symmetry and on the lattice it reproduces Susskind fermions. The KD equation in curved space-time differs from the Dirac equation by coupling the gravitational field to the internal symmetry generators. This new way of treating fermionic degrees of freedom may lead to a solution of the generation puzzle but is in conflict with the equivalence principle and with Lorentz invariance on the Planck-mass scale.