We report that nontrivial topology of a driven Brownian particle restricted on a ring leads to anomalous behaviors on free energy change. Starting from steady states with identical distribution and current on the ring, free energy changes are distinct and nonperiodic after the system is driven by the same periodic force protocol. We demonstrate our observation in examples through both exact sol...

The advance of a Rayleigh-Taylor front is described in Linden & Redondo (1991),[1-3] and may be shown to follow a quadratic law in time where the width of the growing region of instability depends on the local mixing efficiency of the different density fluids that accelerate against each other g is the acceleration and A is the Atwood number defined as the diference of densities divided by thei...

The authors study the Hodge theory of the exterior differential operator d acting on q-forms on a smoothly bounded domain in R, and on the half space R + . The novelty is that the topology used is not an L 2 topology but a Sobolev topology. This strikingly alters the problem as compared to the classical setup. It gives rise to a boundary value problem belonging to a class of problems first intr...

We investigate uniqueness issues that arise in l∞-optimization to linear spaces and Bergman fans of matroids. For linear spaces, we give a polyhedral decomposition of R based on the dimension of the set of l∞-nearest neighbors. This implies that the l∞-nearest neighbor in a linear space is unique if and only if the underlying matroid is uniform. For Bergman fans of matroids, we show that the se...

Stone-type duality connects logic, algebra, and topology in both conceptual and technical senses. This paper is intended to be a demonstration of this slogan. In this paper we focus on some versions of Fitting’s L-valued logic and L-valued modal logic for a finite distributive lattice L. Using the theory of natural dualities, we first obtain a duality for algebras of L-valued logic. Based on th...

We investigate how very large populations are able to reach a global consensus, out of local "microscopic" interaction rules, in the framework of a recently introduced class of models of semiotic dynamics, the so-called naming game. We compare in particular the convergence mechanism for interacting agents embedded in a low-dimensional lattice with respect to the mean-field case. We highlight th...

Traditionally, vector field visualization is concerned with 2D and 3D flows. Yet, many concepts can be extended to general dynamical systems, including the higher-dimensional problem of modeling the motion of finite-sized objects in fluids. In the steady case, the trajectories of these so-called inertial particles appear as tangent curves of a 4D or 6D vector field. These higher-dimensional flo...

The discovery that real-world large networks from many different domains (sociology, biology, computer science. . . ) share the same characteristics has raised an interest in their studying ([17, 2, 15]). The associated graphs of such networks are rather sparse (the mean degree stays roughly constant when the number of nodes increases), highly clustered, and there exists short paths that can be...