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Motivated by generalized uncertainty principle, we derive a discrete picture of the space that respects Lorentz symmetry as well as gauge symmetry through setting an equivalency between linear GUP correction term and electromagnetic…

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The diffusion of particles in confining walls forming a tube is discussed. Such a transport phenomenon is observed in biological cells and porous media. We consider the case in which the tube is winding with curvature and torsion, and the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 Naohisa Ogawa

Combinatorial quantum gravity is governed by a discrete Einstein-Hilbert action formulated on an ensemble of random graphs. There is strong evidence for a second-order quantum phase transition separating a random phase at strong coupling…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-04-20 Carlo A. Trugenberger

Causal rigid particles whose action includes an {\it arbitrary} dependence on the world-line extrinsic curvature are considered. General classes of solutions are constructed, including {\it causal tachyonic} ones. The Hamiltonian…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-22 Jan Govaerts

This paper investigates quantum diffusion of matter waves in two-dimensional random potentials, focussing on expanding Bose-Einstein condensates in spatially correlated optical speckle potentials. Special care is taken to describe the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-13 C. Miniatura , R. C. Kuhn , D. Delande , C. A. Mueller

This Letter investigates the formation of quantum droplets in curved spacetime, highlighting the significant influence of curvature on the formation and properties of these objects. While our computations encompass various dimensions, we…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-18 Antonino Flachi , Takahiro Tanaka

In the framework of Lorentzian warped products, we study the Friedmann-Robertson-Walker cosmological model to investigate non-smooth curvatures associated with multiple discontinuities involved in the evolution of the universe. In…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Jaedong Choi , Soon-Tae Hong

There are various types of global and local spacetime invariant in general relativity. Here I focus on the local invariants obtainable from the curvature tensor and its derivatives. The number of such invariants at each order of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-04-28 Malcolm A. H. MacCallum

While internal space-time symmetries of relativistic particles are dictated by the little groups of the Poincar\'e group, it is possible to construct representations of the little group for massive particles starting from harmonic…

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We present a gauge-invariant formalism to study the evolution of curvature perturbations in a Friedmann-Robertson-Walker universe filled by multiple interacting fluids. We resolve arbitrary perturbations into adiabatic and entropy…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-05 Karim A. Malik , David Wands , Carlo Ungarelli

A model of Lorentz invariant random fluctuations in photon polarization is presented. The effects are frequency dependent and affect the polarization of photons as they propagate through space. We test for this effect by confronting the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-20 Carlo Contaldi , Fay Dowker , Lydia Philpott

A nonrelativistic quantum mechanical particle moving freely on a curved surface feels the effect of the nontrivial geometry of the surface through the kinetic part of the Hamiltonian, which is proportional to the Laplace-Beltrami operator,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-10-09 Neslihan Oflaz , Ali Mostafazadeh , Mehrdad Ahmady

We investigate the evolution of a particle in a Lorentz gas where the background scatters move and collide with each other. As in the standard Lorentz gas, we assume that the particle is negligibly light in comparison with scatters. We show…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-02-08 L. D'Alessio , P. L. Krapivsky

Reaction-diffusion waves in multiple spatial dimensions advance at a rate that strongly depends on the curvature of the wave fronts. These waves have important applications in many physical, ecological, and biological systems. In this work,…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2022-12-28 Pascal R. Buenzli , Matthew J. Simpson

The interest of part of the quantum-gravity community in the possibility of Planck-scale-deformed Lorentz symmetry is also fueled by the opportunities for testing the relevant scenarios with analyses, from a signal-propagation perspective,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-01-22 Giovanni Amelino-Camelia , Antonino MarcianÒ , Marco Matassa , Giacomo Rosati

In relative locality theories the geometric properties of phase space depart from the standard ones given by the fact that spaces of momenta are linear fibers over a spacetime base manifold. In particular here it is assumed that the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-07-24 Valerio Astuti , Laurent Freidel

In a generalized Heisenberg/Schroedinger picture we use an invariant space-time transformation to describe the motion of a relativistic particle. We discuss the relation with the relativistic mechanics and find that the propagation of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-09-13 Rudolf A. Frick

In the past decade the phenomenology of quantum gravity has been dominated by the search of violations of Lorentz invariance. However, there are very serious arguments that led us to assume that this invariance is a symmetry in Nature. This…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-04-07 Yuri Bonder

We derive precise transformation formulas for synthetic lower Ricci bounds under time change. More precisely, for local Dirichlet forms we study how the curvature-dimension condition in the sense of Bakry-Emery will transform under time…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2019-07-15 Bang-Xian Han , Karl-Theodor Sturm

We demonstrate how to construct a lorentz-invariant, hidden-variable interpretation of relativistic quantum mechanics based on particle trajectories. The covariant theory that we propose employs a multi-time formalism and a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 George Horton , Chris Dewdney