The Fourier transform is often used to connect the Lorentzian energy distribution for resonance scattering to the exponential time dependence for decaying states. However, to apply the Fourier transform, one has to bend the rules of standard quantum mechanics; the Lorentzian energy distribution must be extended to the full real axis −∞ < E < ∞ instead of being bounded from below 0 ≤ E < ∞ (“Fer...

This paper develops a supervised dimensionality reduction method, Lorentzian Discriminant Projection (LDP), for discriminant analysis and classification. Our method represents the structures of sample data by a manifold, which is furnished with a Lorentzian metric tensor. Different from classic discriminant analysis techniques, LDP uses distances from points to their within-class neighbors and ...

The prosthetic sockets of 14 independent persons with unilateral trans-tibial (BK) amputation were mounted on an adjustable alignment pylon. Vertical ground reaction forces were recorded in neutral prosthetic alignment and in 10 degrees of prosthetic socket varus, valgus, flexion, and extension. Stance phase time, peak vertical ground reaction force, and impulse were all found to be increased o...

‎We consider four-dimensional lie groups equipped with‎ ‎left-invariant Lorentzian Einstein metrics‎, ‎and determine the harmonicity properties ‎of vector fields on these spaces‎. ‎In some cases‎, ‎all these vector fields are critical points for the energy functional ‎restricted to vector fields‎. ‎We also classify vector fields defining harmonic maps‎, ‎and calculate explicitly the energy of t...

In this paper we present an existence and multiplicity result for periodic trajectories on stationary Lorentzian manifolds, possibly with boundary, whose proof is based on a Morse theory approach, see [5]. We recall that a Lorentzian manifold is a smooth connected nite-dimensional manifold M equipped with a (0; 2) tensor eld g such that for any z ∈ M g(z) [·; ·] is a nondegenerate symmetric bil...

We prove that a four-dimensional Lorentzian manifold that is curvature homogeneous of order 3, or CH3 for short, is necessarily locally homogeneous. We also exhibit and classify four-dimensional Lorentzian, CH2 manifolds that are not homogeneous. The resulting metrics belong to the class of null electromagnetic radiation, type N solutions on an anti-de Sitter background. These findings prove th...

We investigate connections between pairs of (pseudo-)Riemannian metrics whose sum is a (tensor) product of a covector field with itself. A bijective mapping between the classes of Euclidean and Lorentzian metrics is constructed as a special result. The existence of such maps on a differentiable manifold is discussed. Similar relations for metrics of arbitrary signature on a manifold are conside...