INDEX
Every paper Pith has read and judged, in one searchable index.
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physics.ed-ph arXiv submitted 2026-08-11Sliding friction heats surfaces because contact points flex
J. David Brown · “Work Done by Sliding Friction”
2608.11157 -
math-ph arXiv submitted 2026-08-10A cubic equation fixes the best Tarzan jump release angle
Ken Yamamoto · “Theoretical analysis of the maximum range of a projectile released from a pendulum”
2608.09157 -
cond-mat.stat-mech arXiv submitted 2026-08-07One model makes Einstein-de Sitter expansion the late-time attractor
Akash Singh +3 · “Classical fractons with cosmological fixed points”
2608.07672 -
physics.hist-ph arXiv submitted 2026-08-06F=ma is a theorem, not an empirical law
Lars Nordmann · “Newton's Second Law: A Theoretical Identity Derived from the Principle of Excluded Perpetual Motion and the Weak Equivalence Principle”
2608.06266 -
nlin.SI arXiv submitted 2026-08-06A curl-force Hamiltonian becomes Liouville integrable at alpha = -beta
Alexander Felski +1 · “Integrable curl-force Hamiltonians: bi-Hamiltonian structure, separability, and periodic orbits”
2608.05952 -
math-ph arXiv submitted 2026-08-06Adding an oblique fiber family makes 2-D pantographic fabric complete
Casey Rodriguez +4 · “On the synthesis of complete two-dimensional second-gradient continua: Tri-pantographic fabrics”
2608.05524 -
cond-mat.mtrl-sci arXiv submitted 2026-08-05Dislocation emission shields cracks but does not toughen them
Khanh Chau Le +1 · “A phase field model of coupled crack and dislocations: emission, blunting, and the necessity of dissipative toughening”
2608.04781 -
cond-mat.stat-mech arXiv submitted 2026-08-04Exact resonances can't guarantee phonon energy diffusion
Wei Lin +2 · “Exact Resonances Are Not Sufficient for Phonon Energy Diffusion”
2608.03180 -
physics.class-ph arXiv submitted 2026-08-03Correct faulty plastic laws on the fly to obey the Second Law
Maximiliano Larrain Silva +1 · “Solving the Dissipation Inequality not as a constitutive restriction”
2608.02215 -
physics.class-ph arXiv submitted 2026-08-03Minimal correction makes faulty plasticity laws obey the Second Law
Maximiliano Larrain Silva +1 · “Solving the Dissipation Inequality not as a constitutive restriction”
2608.02215 -
physics.class-ph arXiv submitted 2026-08-03When lattices don't match, one wave fans into many
Cong Chen +3 · “Wave Scattering at temporal interfaces with spatial-translation-symmetry mismatch”
2608.02076 -
math-ph arXiv submitted 2026-08-03Micromorphic theory follows from gauge invariance alone
Boris Kolev (LMPS) +1 · “Geometric theory of generalised continua using moving frames”
2608.01996 -
gr-qc arXiv submitted 2026-08-03Canonical map equates Bateman and Caldirola-Kanai scalar-field systems
Narakorn Kaewkhao +1 · “A Time-Dependent Canonical Transformation between Bateman and Doubled Caldirola--Kanai Systems for a Homogeneous Massive Scalar Field on a Prescribed FLRW Background”
2608.01894 -
physics.ed-ph arXiv submitted 2026-08-02Boundary term alone yields Ostrogradsky's canonical pairs
Drew Watson +2 · “The First Variational Formula and the Ostrogradsky Formalism”
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physics.class-ph arXiv submitted 2026-08-02Euclidean construction links orbits to inverse-square force
Changchun Shi · “Constructive Euclidean Proofs of the Equivalence Between Keplerian Orbits and Newton's Inverse-Square Law”
2608.02676 -
physics.class-ph arXiv submitted 2026-08-01Four constants stay fixed on optimal continuous-thrust orbital paths
Aimar Negrete +1 · “Conserved Quantities of Optimal Continuous-Thrust Trajectories in A Central Gravitational Field”
2608.00842 -
physics.class-ph arXiv submitted 2026-08-01Sliding bar plus self-inductance equals a damped RLC oscillator
Carlos E. Alvarez · “The moving bar problem: an electromechanical damped oscillator”
2608.00757 -
physics.class-ph arXiv submitted 2026-07-31Hollow-sphere stress fields reduced to explicit series
Satoshi Takada +1 · “Revisiting Stress Analysis in a Three-Dimensional Elastic Hollow Sphere under Uniaxial Compression via the Inverse Laplace Transform Expressions within an Elastodynamic Framework”
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cond-mat.mtrl-sci arXiv submitted 2026-07-31One fracture model unifies plastic
Blaise Bourdin +1 · “Strength-degradation phase-field regularization of cohesive fracture: the antiplane case”
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cond-mat.stat-mech arXiv submitted 2026-07-30One assumption proves the second law—and exposes its limit
Yu Qiao · “Deriving the second law of thermodynamics and exploring its boundaries”
2607.28765 -
physics.hist-ph arXiv submitted 2026-07-30Roemer’s method still yields c within 10% with small telescopes
Fabio Falchi +3 · “De mora luminis: Roemer's discovery 350 years later”
2607.28512 -
physics.class-ph arXiv submitted 2026-07-29Five charges beat Maxwell's bound with 24 equilibria
Philip Arathoon +2 · “The Maxwell Conjecture is False”
2607.27197 -
cond-mat.soft arXiv submitted 2026-07-29Rigid kirigami snaps into locked 3D shapes by design
Xiaoyuan Ying +1 · “Instability-induced bistable shape-morphing kirigami structures”
2607.26941 -
math.AP arXiv submitted 2026-07-28One tunable weight tames ill-posed homogenized wave equations
R\'emi Cornaggia +4 · “Well-posed homogenized strain-gradient models for linear elastodynamics and elastostatics in arbitrary periodic media”
2607.25602 -
math-ph arXiv submitted 2026-07-28Painlevé paradox flips with the observer's frame
Stefano Pasquero · “Notes on a paper by F. G\'enot and B. Brogliato on the Painlev\'e paradox”
2607.25414 -
gr-qc arXiv submitted 2026-07-27One function maps binary orbits cycle to cycle under radiation reaction
Francisco M. Blanco · “The Magnusian generator for dissipative systems and application to leading 2.5PN radiation-reaction dynamics”
2607.24335 -
physics.class-ph arXiv submitted 2026-07-27Two pairs of period-two states appear in one parametric oscillator
P. Y. Chan +4 · “Multibranched parametric resonance and swallowtail catastrophe in electromechanical oscillators with nonlinear friction”
2607.27242 -
cond-mat.soft arXiv submitted 2026-07-24Coil-of-coils stiffness and twist hinge on a 19.47° angle
Hiroyuki Shima · “Geometric Renormalization and a Chirality Threshold in Recursively Coiled Filaments”
2607.22158 -
physics.optics arXiv submitted 2026-07-23Three derivations converge on one Wigner-angle formula
C. J. McKinstrie +1 · “How to calculate the Wigner angle”
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physics.class-ph arXiv submitted 2026-07-23Passive obstacles turn plain wave packets into vortices and rings
Zhiling Zhou +6 · “Spatiotemporal Vortex Rings Induced by Spatiotemporal Coupling”
2607.21322 -
nlin.SI arXiv submitted 2026-07-23New Lax pairs capture all three invariants of the 2D oscillator
Govind S. Krishnaswami +2 · “Lax pairs and $r$-matrices for some two-dimensional isotropic oscillators”
2607.20983 -
math-ph arXiv submitted 2026-07-21One blurring length governs the shower curtain effect
Cristophe Gomez (I2M) +1 · “Imaging through rough interfaces: The shower curtain effect”
2607.18947 -
physics.class-ph arXiv submitted 2026-07-21Three event cameras reconstruct 3D bubble paths at 97% consistency
A Al Brahim +4 · “Three-Dimensional Bubbly Flow Measurement Using Event-based Vision Sensor Cameras”
2607.18823 -
physics.flu-dyn arXiv submitted 2026-07-21A rising electric field puts droplets through tilt-and-wobble regimes
Saurabh Sharma (CORIA) +4 · “Influence of Electrohydrodynamic on Droplet Stability in Leaky Dielectric Media”
2607.21638 -
cond-mat.mes-hall arXiv submitted 2026-07-20Mechanical oscillators host a genuinely non-Abelian gauge field
Ivan Velkovsky +4 · “Non-Abelian Gauge Field Mechanics”
2607.18215 -
physics.hist-ph arXiv submitted 2026-07-18Absolute velocity's undetectability is not a Newtonian theorem
Jorge Manero +2 · “On the detection of absolute velocity in a Newtonian universe”
2607.16584 -
physics.flu-dyn arXiv submitted 2026-07-17An island turns random waves into a vortex half the time
Alex J. Vernon +4 · “Vortex formation around islands in random waves”
2607.15938 -
math-ph arXiv submitted 2026-07-16Exact frequency makes Duffing perturbation converge 4× faster
Ramij Ahamed +1 · “Study of Duffing oscillator using an improved Lindstedt Poincare method and relevant comparisons”
2607.15233 -
cond-mat.stat-mech arXiv submitted 2026-07-15Residual energy grows as (ξN)^{2/3} in a cooled model solid
Matteo Razza +2 · “Cooling rate and glassy behavior in the Fermi--Pasta--Ulam system”
2607.13833 -
cond-mat.stat-mech arXiv submitted 2026-07-13Kinetic Gibbs-Duhem recovers sound speed
Fei Wang · “Density evolution at fluid-fluid interfaces: A generalized Gibbs-Duhem theory”
2607.11988 -
cond-mat.stat-mech arXiv submitted 2026-07-13Kinetic term in Gibbs–Duhem relation yields a density evolution law
Fei Wang · “Density evolution at fluid-fluid interfaces: A generalized Gibbs-Duhem theory”
2607.11988 -
physics.class-ph arXiv submitted 2026-07-13Thin wires of any shape carry linear surface charge
Roberto Merlin · “Surface charge density of current-carrying conductors: An exact analytical solution for infinitely thin wires of arbitrary shape”
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physics.class-ph arXiv submitted 2026-07-11Wire media tuned over 80% by simple breathing motion
Denis Sakhno +1 · “Tuning Plasma Frequency of Nested Wire Media”
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physics.class-ph arXiv submitted 2026-07-10Water waves trace the inverted oscillator’s phase space
Georgi Gary Rozenman +4 · “Observation of Phase Space Dynamics of Inverted Harmonic Oscillator”
2607.18297 -
physics.class-ph arXiv submitted 2026-07-10Orientation tensors fix stiffness of spheroid composites
Antoine Martin (IRESNE) · “Mean field homogenization schemes for composites with prolate and oblate spheroids: use of the orientation tensors and computation of the strain second-moments”
2607.09213 -
physics.class-ph arXiv submitted 2026-07-10Circling exceptional points flips elastic spin by path handedness
Chenwen Yang +1 · “Chiral switching of elastic spin via dynamic encirclement of exceptional points”
2607.09083 -
physics.class-ph arXiv submitted 2026-07-09Classical acceleration of an electron yields exact Planck radiation
Michael R.R. Good · “An advanced undergraduate derivation of acceleration thermality”
2607.08184 -
physics.class-ph arXiv submitted 2026-07-07Classical bundles keep fixed area
Taisuke Hasegawa · “Variational Gaussian Wave-Packet Dynamics from Constrained Classical Trajectory Bundles”
2607.07734 -
physics.class-ph arXiv submitted 2026-07-07Bundled classical trajectories reproduce Gaussian TDVP as N→∞
Taisuke Hasegawa · “Variational Gaussian Wave-Packet Dynamics from Constrained Classical Trajectory Bundles”
2607.07734 -
physics.class-ph arXiv submitted 2026-07-07Fixed-area trajectory bundles converge to Gaussian wave-packet dynamics
Taisuke Hasegawa · “Variational Gaussian Wave-Packet Dynamics from Constrained Classical Trajectory Bundles”
2607.07734