Subtracting the quadratic Taylor polynomial at the rescaling centre makes the function, gradient and Hessian matrix vanish there. Dividing by preserves the normalized Hölder oscillation of the Hessian matrix while turning a small forcing-to-oscillation ratio into a harmonic limiting equation. The three vanished Taylor coefficients provide local bounds needed by the Arzela-Ascoli theorem.
Tidal tensor Created 2026-10-05 Updated 2026-10-06
The acceleration tidal tensor is for gravitational acceleration . It describes differential acceleration . Some authors instead call the positive Hessian matrix the tidal tensor, reversing this sign convention. For a point mass and the positive potential convention , the tensor is .
Tidal torque theory Created 2026-09-29 Updated 2026-10-05
Tidal torque theory explains the early angular momentum of a protohalo through the misalignment of its mass second-moment tensor and the Hessian matrix of the surrounding peculiar gravitational potential. At leading order,
For additive Gaussian white noise and a time-even order parameter, a midpoint discretization of the Onsager–Machlup functional evaluates drift derivatives at the midpoint configurations. Reversing a trajectory visits the same midpoints in reverse order, so the noise-to-path Jacobian determinant is invariant under reversal. It may depend on the trajectory, and must be distinguished from the constant normalization of the noise measure.
For nonconserved order-parameter dynamics with , the factor at one time step, apart from a path-independent power of the step size, is
Here the fields have first been restricted to a finite spatial grid, and is the Hessian matrix of the free energy.
For mixed conserved and nonconserved order-parameter dynamics, the required noises for a joint configuration and flux trajectory are
where represent the divergence and gradient, and represents the Laplacian. The Jacobian matrix is
Taking its Schur complement gives the joint factor
For periodic boundary conditions, discretizing the two spatial operators compatibly gives , so is the positive relaxation operator when . Reversal leaves unchanged and reverses the sign of the flux. The product of the joint factors is consequently the same for both histories, justifying its cancellation from the joint path probability of an order parameter and its flux. The functional chain rule used in the action ratio holds in the continuum limit of this midpoint convention.
Tree-level supertrace mass sum rule Created 2026-10-06 Updated 2026-10-07
For canonical positive kinetic terms in global supersymmetry, has mixed Hessian matrix and holomorphic block . The real scalar squared-mass sum is for the chiral-superfield fermion mass matrix . Each Weyl spinor contributes two states, giving the same fermion weighted sum. Thus their boson-minus-fermion supertrace vanishes even with F-term breaking. The holomorphic Hessian splits real scalar masses without changing their sum. Noncanonical Kähler metrics, supergravity, and radiative corrections require different formulas.
For a smooth real phase with an isolated nondegenerate interior critical point , smooth amplitude , and no competing boundary contribution, the leading contribution is , where is the Hessian matrix. Orthogonal diagonalization gives two one-dimensional Fresnel integrals. A degenerate critical point or a stationary boundary needs its own local analysis.