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This survey article reviews recent results on fermion system in discrete space-time and corresponding systems in Minkowski space. After a basic introduction to the discrete setting, we explain a mechanism of spontaneous symmetry breaking…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Felix Finster

The fact that in Minkowski space, space and time are both quantized does not have to be introduced as a new postulate in physics, but can actually be derived by combining certain features of General Relativity and Quantum Mechanics. This is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 G. 't Hooft

Classical mechanics, relativity, electrodynamics and quantum mechanics are often depicted as separate realms of physics, each with its own formalism and notion. This remains unsatisfactory with respect to the unity of nature and to the…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2018-02-07 C. Baumgarten

In this paper we address the problem of the arrow of time from a cosmological point of view, rejecting the traditional entropic approach that defines the future direction of time as the direction of the entropy increase: from our…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Mario Castagnino , Luis Lara , Olimpia Lombardi

It is shown that the cosmological singularity in isotropic minisuperspaces is naturally removed by quantum geometry. Already at the kinematical level, this is indicated by the fact that the inverse scale factor is represented by a bounded…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Martin Bojowald

We derive the light deflection caused by the screw dislocation in space-time. Space-time is medium which can be deformed in such a way that its deformation is equivalent to the existence of metric which is equivalent to gravity. The…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Miroslav Pardy

We identify a time-dependent class of metrics with potential applications to cosmology, which emerge from negative-tension branes. The cosmology is based on a general class of solutions to Einstein-dilaton-Maxwell theory, presented in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 C. P. Burgess , F. Quevedo , S. -J. Rey , G. Tasinato , I. Zavala

The four dimensional spacetime continuum, as first conceived by Minkowski, has become the dominant framework within which to describe physical laws. In this paper, we show how this four-dimensional structure is a natural property of…

The local Lorentz and diffeomorphism symmetries of Einstein's gravitational theory are spontaneously broken by a Higgs mechanism by invoking a phase transition in the early Universe, at a critical temperature $T_c$ below which the symmetry…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-17 J. W. Moffat

How the time evolution which is typical for classical cosmology emerges from quantum cosmology? The answer is not trivial because the Wheeler-DeWitt equation is time independent. A framework associating the quantum Hamilton-Jacobi to the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-04-26 M. Fathi , S. Jalalzadeh

We consider Einstein's equations coupled to the Euler equations in plane symmetry, with compact spatial slices and constant mean curvature time. We show that for a wide variety of equations of state and a large class of initial data,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-06-11 Alan D. Rendall , Fredrik Ståhl

At the mesoscopic scales --- which interpolate between the macroscopic, classical, geometry and the microscopic, quantum, structure of spacetime --- one can identify the density of states of the geometry which arises from the existence of a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-12-19 T. Padmanabhan

We propose that de-Sitter space-time originates from Gaussian distribution in a quantum harmonic oscillator system. This equation associates with a massless Klein-Gordon equation. We discover that every excited states of quantum oscillator…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-10-01 Leihua Liu , Jiansen Zheng

Production of gravitational vacuum defects and their contribution to the energy density of our Universe are discussed. These topological microstructures (defects) could be produced in the result of creation of the Universe from "nothing"…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-01-03 V. Burdyuzha , G. Vereshkov , J. Pacheco

This proceeding is an introduction to cosmological applications of the Lorentz gauge theory. It provides the ingredients for a unique, though yet tentative $\Lambda$CDM theory of cosmology. The emergence of spacetime is described by the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-10-18 Tomi Koivisto

Supersymmetry breaking and compactification of extra space-time dimensions may have a common dynamical origin if our universe is spontaneously generated in the form of a four-dimensional topological or non-topological defect in higher…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 G. Dvali , M. Shifman

A literature review of related articles, either by affinity or by contrast, to a fundamental theory of time and space - time previously developed. It shows how from a primitive concept of preparticle and membership relation of set theory,…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2015-08-10 Maximo Garcia Sucre

Spontaneous symmetry breaking is one of the central organizing principles in physics. Time crystals have emerged as an exotic phase of matter, spontaneously breaking the time translational symmetry, and are mainly categorized as discrete or…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-16 Jan Carlo Schumann , Igor Lesanovsky , Parvinder Solanki

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

We study a symmetry, schematically Energy -> - Energy, which suppresses matter contributions to the cosmological constant. The requisite negative energy fluctuations are identified with a "ghost" copy of the Standard Model. Gravity…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 David E. Kaplan , Raman Sundrum