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Space-Time in general relativity is a dynamical entity because it is subject to the Einstein field equations. The space-time metric provides different geometrical structures: conformal, volume, projective and linear connection. A deep…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Ignacio Sanchez-Rodriguez

To study discrete dynamical systems of different types --- deterministic, statistical and quantum --- we develop various approaches. We introduce the concept of a system of discrete relations on an abstract simplicial complex and develop…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2010-11-10 Vladimir V. Kornyak

We present current theories about the structure of space and time, where the building blocks are some fundamental entities (yes-no experiment, quantum processes, spin net-work, preparticles) that do not presuppose the existence of space and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Lorente

The space discreteness hypothesis asserts that the nature of space at short distances is radically different from that at large distances. Based on the Bronstein inequality, here, we use a totally disconnected topological space…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-28 W. A. Zúñiga-Galindo

This essay examines our fundamental conceptions of time, spacetime, the asymmetry of time, and the motion of a quantum mechanical particle. The concept of time has multiple meanings and these are often confused in the literature and must be…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-08-15 Gerald E. Marsh

Differential flatness serves as a powerful tool for controlling continuous time nonlinear systems in problems such as motion planning and trajectory tracking. A similar notion, called difference flatness, exists for discrete-time systems.…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-17 Ashutosh Jindal , Florentina Nicolau , David Martin Diego , Ravi Banavar

We review very briefly the main mathematical structures and results in some important areas of Quantum Mechanics involving PDEs and formulate open problems.

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2022-08-09 Israel Michael Sigal

The Old Quantum Mechanics actions discretization rules for periodic motions on the atomic scale (Bohr-Sommerfeld) have been suitably modified in order to account the gravitational field instead of the electrostatic one. The new rules are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. G. Agnese , R. Festa

Time crystals are quantum systems which are able to reveal condensed matter behavior in the time domain. It is known that crystalization in time can be observed in a periodically driven many-body system when interactions between particles…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2019-04-02 Pawel Matus , Krzysztof Sacha

Given a minimum measurable length underlying spacetime, the latter may be effectively regarded as discrete, at scales of order the Planck length. A systematic discretization of continuum physics may be effected most efficiently through the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Cosmas K. Zachos

The structural invariant subspaces of the discrete-time singular Hamiltonian system are used in 1] to give an analytic nonrecursive expression of all the admissible trajectories. A deeper insight into the features of these subspaces,…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2012-10-31 Giovanni Marro

Classical mechanics can be formulated using a symplectic structure on classical phase space, while quantum mechanics requires a complex-differentiable structure on that same space. Complex-differentiable structures on a given real manifold…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 J. M. Isidro

We show that discretization of spacetime naturally suggests discretization of Hilbert space itself. Specifically, in a universe with a minimal length (for example, due to quantum gravity), no experiment can exclude the possibility that…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 R. Buniy , S. Hsu , A. Zee

This paper begins with a theoretical explanation of why spacetime is discrete. The derivation shows that there exists an elementary length which is essentially Planck's length. We then show how the existence of this length affects time…

General Physics · Physics 2017-04-07 Stan Gudder

A recently introduced numerical approach to quantum systems is analyzed. The basis of a Fock space is restricted and represented in an algebraic program. Convergence with increasing size of basis is proved and the difference between…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Maciej Trzetrzelewski

Certain intriguing consequences of the discreteness of time on the time evolution of dynamical systems are discussed. In the discrete-time classical mechanics proposed here, there is an {\it arrow of time} that follows from the fact that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 M. C. Valsakumar

We present the case for a fundamentally discrete quantum spacetime and for Group Field Theories as a candidate consistent description of it, briefly reviewing the key properties of the GFT formalism. We then argue that the outstanding…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Daniele Oriti

We discuss structure-preserving time discretization for nonlinear port-Hamiltonian systems with state-dependent mass matrix. Such systems occur, for instance, in the context of structure-preserving nonlinear model order reduction for…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-11-02 Philipp Schulze

We discuss some basic issues that arise when one attempts to model quantum mechanical systems on a computer, and we describe the mathematical structure of the resulting discretized cannonical commutation relations.

funct-an · Mathematics 2008-02-03 William Arveson

The model is a particular case of causal set. This is a discrete model of spacetime in a microscopic level. In paper the most general properties of the model are investigated without any reference to a dynamics. The dynamics of the model is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-09-01 Alexey L. Krugly