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Anthony J. Creaco

Publications and source records attributed to Anthony J. Creaco.

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arXiv2018

Irreversibility from staircases in symplectic embeddings

We present an argument whose goal is to trace the origin of the macroscopically irreversible behavior of Hamitonian systems of many degrees of freedom. We use recent flexibility and rigidity results of symplectic embeddings, quantified via the (stabilized) Fibonacci and Pell staircases, to encode the underlying breadth of the possible initial conditions, which alongside the multitude of degrees of freeedom of the underlying system give rise to time-irreversibility.

cond-mat.stat-mech↗

arXiv2018

Power-law entropies for continuous systems and generalized operations

We present our view in a standing debate about the definition and meaning of power-law entropies for continuous systems. Our suggestion is that such arguments should take into account the generalized operations of addition and multiplication induced by the power-law entropies' composition properties. To be concrete, we highlight our view using the case of the $q$- also known as "Tsallis", entropic functionals.

cond-mat.stat-mech↗

arXiv2012

Nilpotence in Physics: the case of Tsallis entropy

In an attempt to understand the Tsallis entropy composition property, we construct an embedding of the reals into the set of $3\times 3$ upper triangular matrices with real entries. We explore consequences of this embedding and of the geometry of the ambient $3\times 3$ Heisenberg group. This approach establishes the polynomial growth of the volume of phase space of systems described by the Tsallis entropy and provides a general framework for understanding Abe's formula in terms of the Pansu derivative between Riemannian spaces.

math-ph↗

arXiv2008

Phase space measure concentration for an ideal gas

We point out that a special case of an ideal gas exhibits concentration of the volume of its phase space, which is a sphere, around its equator in the thermodynamic limit. The rate of approach to the thermodynamic limit is determined. Our argument relies on the spherical isoperimetric inequality of Lévy and Gromov.

cond-mat.stat-mech↗

arXiv2008

The geodesic rule for higher codimensional global defects

We generalize the geodesic rule to the case of formation of higher codimensional global defects. Relying on energetic arguments, we argue that, for such defects, the geometric structures of interest are the totally geodesic submanifolds. On the other hand, stochastic arguments lead to a diffusion equation approach, from which the geodesic rule is deduced. It turns out that the most appropriate geometric structure that one should consider is the convex hull of the values of the order parameter on the causal volumes whose collision gives rise to the defect. We explain why these two approaches lead to similar results when calculating the density of global defects by using a theorem of Cheeger and Gromoll. We present a computation of the probability of formation of strings/vortices in the case of a system, such as nematic liquid crystals, whose vacuum is $\mathbb{R}P^2$.

hep-th↗