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48 results for broken symmetry

Study on spontaneous symmetry breaking in financial markets using quantum mechanics.

problem Analyzing spontaneous symmetry breaking in financial markets.
method Using Hamiltonian form of Black-Scholes and Merton-Garman equations, analyzing symmetry breaking and interpreting Nambu-Goldstone bosons.
result Interpretation of Nambu-Goldstone bosons in financial markets.

GE-autoencoder identifies spontaneous symmetry breaking in systems.

problem Locating phase boundaries and identifying spontaneously broken symmetries in systems.
method Group-equivariant autoencoder using group theory to constrain parameters and learn invariant order parameters.
result GE-autoencoder accurately determines spontaneous symmetry breaking and estimates critical temperatures more efficiently.

Modified Jones-Faddy skew t-distribution captures asymmetry in stock returns.

problem Negative skew and positive mean in stock returns due to broken symmetry of stochastic volatility.
method Modified Jones-Faddy skew t-distribution applied to split gains and losses, using stochastic differential equations for stock returns and volatility.
result The modified distribution effectively captures the asymmetry in daily S&P500 returns, including its tails.

The paper connects financial vacuum conditions to spontaneous symmetry breaking in quantum finance.

problem Understanding the conditions under which the martingale condition is a non-degenerate vacuum.
method Expressing financial equations in Hamiltonian form and analyzing symmetry breaking.
result Conditions for the martingale condition to be a non-degenerate vacuum are identified.

Symmetry-breaking in three differential geometry conjectures.

problem Exploring the role of symmetry in three differential geometry conjectures.
method Examining the Carathéodory, Willmore, and Lawson Conjectures through the lens of symmetry in 3D space-forms.
result Symmetry is broken, and more general ambient metrics are considered, leading to the failure of the conjectures.

Dense Associative Memories outperform classical networks in robustness and signal processing.

problem Improving neural network performance in adversarial attacks and weak signal processing.
method Relaxing replica symmetry in statistical mechanics of spin glasses to analyze unsupervised and supervised learning.
result Explicit analytical investigation of phase diagrams and storage capacities for Dense Associative Memories.

We show that a tensor field of any rank integrates to zero over all broken rays if and only if it is a symmetrized covariant derivative of a lower order tensor which satisfies a symmetry condition at the reflecting part of the boundary and vanishes on the rest. This is done in a geometry with non-positive sectional cur…

2018-05-13abs ↗pdf ↗

Investigates spontaneous symmetry breaking in non-equilibrium systems.

problem Spontaneous symmetry breaking of ergodicity in non-equilibrium systems.
method Mathematical and effective field theory approaches to investigate symmetry breaking.
result Symmetry breaking phenomena observed in stochastic processes.
The Dynamics of Moneycond-mat.stat-mech

We present a dynamical many-body theory of money in which the value of money is a time dependent ``strategic variable'' that is chosen by the individual agents. The value of money in equilibrium is not fixed by the equations, and thus represents a continuous symmetry. The dynamics breaks this continuous symmetry by fix…

1998-11-06abs ↗pdf ↗

Continuous symmetries and their breaking play a prominent role in contemporary physics. Effective low-energy field theories around symmetry breaking states explain diverse phenomena such as superconductivity, magnetism, and the mass of nucleons. We show that such field theories can also be a useful tool in machine lear…

2019-07-04abs ↗pdf ↗

This paper considers ideal gas-like models of trading markets, where each agent is identified as a gas molecule that interacts with others trading in elastic or money-conservative collisions. Traditionally, these models introduce different rules of random selection and exchange between pair agents. Unlike these traditi…

2009-04-02abs ↗pdf ↗

We study the topology of smectic defects in two and three dimensions. We give a topological classification of smectic point defects and disclination lines in three dimensions. In addition we describe the combination rules for smectic point defects in two and three dimensions, showing how the broken translational symmet…

2018-08-13abs ↗pdf ↗

Study of symmetries in 2D Yang-Mills theory, including orbifolds and higher forms.

problem Understanding symmetries and anomalies in 2D Yang-Mills theory.
method Combining continuum methods, topological defects, and higher gauge theory.
result Unified description of higher and lower form gauge fields, identifying spontaneous symmetry breaking.

It is suggested to consider long term trends of financial markets as a growth phenomenon. The question that is asked is what conditions are needed for a long term sustainable growth or contraction in a financial market? The paper discuss the role of traditional market players of long only mutual funds versus hedge fund…

2003-08-26abs ↗pdf ↗

Analyzes multi-day stock returns, showing linear volatility and mean dependence.

problem Linear dependence of volatility and mean in accumulated stock returns.
method Modified Jones-Faddy skew t-distribution analysis.
result Linear dependence of volatility and mean on the number of days of accumulation.

Breaking symmetry in training data is key for generalization in feature learning kernels.

problem Grokking in algebraic tasks, where models perform well on training but fail on unseen data.
method Used Recursive Feature Machine (RFM) with AGOP to learn task-relevant features, breaking symmetry in training data.
result Generalization occurs only when symmetry in the training set is broken, and RFM generalizes by recovering underlying invariance group action.

The homotopy theory of topological defects in ordered media fails to completely characterize systems with broken translational symmetry. We argue that the problem can be understood in terms of the lack of rotational Goldstone modes in such systems and provide an alternate approach that correctly accounts for the intera…

2009-05-21abs ↗pdf ↗
Money and Goldstone modescond-mat.stat-mech

Why is ``worthless'' fiat money generally accepted as payment for goods and services? In equilibrium theory, the value of money is generally not determined: the number of equations is one less than the number of unknowns, so only relative prices are determined. In the language of mathematics, the equations are ``homoge…

2000-09-19abs ↗pdf ↗

The aim of this talk is to explain how symmetry breaking in a quantum field theory problem leads to a study of projective bundles, Dixmier-Douady classes, and associated gerbes. A gerbe manifests itself in different equivalent ways. Besides the cohomological description as a DD class, it can be defined in terms of a fa…

2002-06-17abs ↗pdf ↗

The broken genera are orientation preserving diffeomorphism invariants of closed oriented 4-manifolds, defined via broken Lefschetz fibrations. We study the properties of the broken genera invariants, and calculate them for various 4-manifolds, while showing that the invariants are sensitive to exotic smooth structures…

2012-05-24abs ↗pdf ↗

We consider the broken ray transform on Riemann surfaces in the presence of an obstacle, following earlier work of Mukhometov. If the surface has nonpositive curvature and the obstacle is strictly convex, we show that a function is determined by its integrals over broken geodesic rays that reflect on the boundary of th…

2014-03-20abs ↗pdf ↗

In classical field theory, the composite fibred manifolds Y -> Z -> X provides the adequate mathematical formulation of gauge models with broken symmetries, e.g., the gauge gravitation theory. This work is devoted to connections on composite fibred manifolds. In particular, we get the horizontal splitting of the vertic…

1994-12-17abs ↗pdf ↗

In a closed economic system, money is conserved. Thus, by analogy with energy, the equilibrium probability distribution of money must follow the exponential Gibbs law characterized by an effective temperature equal to the average amount of money per economic agent. We demonstrate how the Gibbs distribution emerges in c…

2000-01-30abs ↗pdf ↗

We reduce the broken ray transform on some Riemannian manifolds (with corners) to the geodesic ray transform on another manifold, which is obtained from the original one by reflection. We give examples of this idea and present injectivity results for the broken ray transform using corresponding earlier results for the …

2013-06-03abs ↗pdf ↗

The space of broken hyperbolic structures generalizes the Teichmüller space of a punctured surface, and the space of projectivized broken measured foliations (equivalently, the space of projectivized affine foliations) generalizes the space of projectivized measured foliations. Just as projectivized measured foliations…

2003-06-26abs ↗pdf ↗

It is known that an arbitrary smooth, oriented 4-manifold admits the structure of what is called a broken Lefschetz fibration. Given a broken fibration, there are certain modifications, realized as homotopies of the fibration map, that enable one to construct infinitely many distinct fibrations of the same manifold. Th…

2009-05-04abs ↗pdf ↗

A machine learning model with approximate rotational symmetry is tested and found stable.

problem The effects of broken symmetries in machine learning models.
method Testing a model with approximate rotational symmetry in various physical scenarios.
result The model remains stable even with noticeable symmetry artifacts, suggesting potential benefits.

The paper studies symmetry reduction and optimal control on Riemannian manifolds.

problem Symmetry reduction and optimal control on Riemannian manifolds.
method Derivation of reduced equations of motion for variational problems on Lie groups and Riemannian homogeneous spaces.
result Derivation of geodesic equations and reduced equations of motion for various applications.

Permutation of any two hidden units yields invariant properties in typical deep generative neural networks. This permutation symmetry plays an important role in understanding the computation performance of a broad class of neural networks with two or more hidden units. However, a theoretical study of the permutation sy…

2019-04-30abs ↗pdf ↗

Analyzes symmetries in neural networks to predict learning dynamics.

problem Understanding the dynamics of neural network parameters during training.
method Unified theoretical framework based on symmetries and conservation laws.
result Symmetries impose geometric constraints on gradients and Hessians, leading to conservation laws.

The topology of broken Lefschetz fibrations is studied by means of handle decompositions. We consider a slight generalization of round handles, and describe the handle diagrams for all that appear in dimension four. We establish simplified handlebody and monodromy representations for a certain subclass of broken Lefsch…

2007-12-31abs ↗pdf ↗

In this article, we generalize the classification of genus one Lefschetz fibrations to genus one simplified broken Lefschetz fibrations, which have fibers of genera one and zero. We classify genus one Lefschetz fibrations over the 2-disk with certain non-trivial global monodromies using chart descriptions, and identify…

2010-10-27abs ↗pdf ↗

We show that there exists a non-trivial simplified broken Lefschetz fibration which has infinitely many homotopy classes of sections. We also construct a non-trivial simplified broken Lefschetz fibration which has a section with non-negative square. It is known that no Lefschetz fibration satisfies either of the above …

2011-04-06abs ↗pdf ↗

The purpose of this note is to explain a combinatorial description of closed smooth oriented 4-manifolds in terms of positive Dehn twist factorizations of surface mapping classes, and further explore these connections. This is obtained via monodromy representations of simplified broken Lefschetz fibrations on 4-manifol…

2014-10-21abs ↗pdf ↗

This PhD thesis studies the broken ray transform, a generalization of the geodesic X-ray transform where geodesics are replaced with broken rays that reflect on a part of the boundary. The fundamental question is whether this transform is injective. We employ four different methods to approach this question, and each o…

2014-09-26abs ↗pdf ↗

A hyperelliptic broken Lefschetz fibration is a generalization of a hyperelliptic Lefschetz fibration. We construct and compute a local signature of hyperelliptic directed broken Lefschetz fibrations by generalizing Endo's local signature of hyperelliptic Lefschetz fibrations. It is described by his local signature and…

2011-10-24abs ↗pdf ↗

Given a closed Riemannian manifold of dimension nn and a Morse-Smale function, there are finitely many nn-part broken trajectories of the negative gradient flow. We show that if the manifold admits a hyperbolic metric, then the number of nn-part broken trajectories is always at least the hyperbolic volume. The proof…

2015-06-15abs ↗pdf ↗

We present explicit algorithms for simplifying the topology of indefinite fibrations on 4-manifolds, which include broken Lefschetz fibrations and indefinite Morse 2-functions. The algorithms consist of sequences of moves, which modify indefinite fibrations in smooth 1-parameter families. In particular, given an arbitr…

2017-05-31abs ↗pdf ↗

Auroux, Donaldson and Katzarkov introduced broken Lefschetz fibrations as a generalization of Lefshcetz fibrations in order to describe near-symplectic 4-manifolds. We first study monodromy representations of higher sides of genus-1 simplified broken Lefschetz fibrations. We then completely classify diffeomorphism type…

2010-12-18abs ↗pdf ↗

We prove a trace formula for three-dimensional spherically symmetric Riemannian manifolds with boundary which satisfy the Herglotz condition: The wave trace is singular precisely at the length spectrum of periodic broken rays. In particular, the Neumann spectrum of the Laplace--Beltrami operator uniquely determines the…

2017-05-30abs ↗pdf ↗