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We apply our model of quantum gravity to an AdS black hole resulting in a wave equation in a quantum spacetime which has a sequence of solutions that can be expressed as a product of stationary and temporal eigenfunctions. The stationary…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-09-22 Claus Gerhardt

A quantum mechanics representation based on position ($\vec{r}$), linear momentum($\vec{p}$) and energy($E$) eigenvalues is presented here. A set of equations, explicitly independent on wave function, was derived relating these observables.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-03-22 Jeconias Rocha Guimarães

In this paper, we give some characterizations for spacelike helices in Minkowski space-time. We find the differential equations characterizing the spacelike helices and also give the integral characterizations for these curves in Minkowski…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2010-06-04 Mehmet Önder , Hüseyin Kocyiğit , Mustafa Kazaz

It is widely held that plane wave spacetimes are causally well behaved which means that they are free from causal pathologies such as closed timelike curves or closed null geodesics. In this paper, we show that one can get closed null…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-03-29 Debojit Sarma , Mahadev Patgiri , Faiz Uddin Ahmed

In quantum geometry, we consider a set of loops, a compact orientable surface and a solid compact spatial region, all inside $\mathbb{R} \times \mathbb{R}^3 \equiv \mathbb{R}^4$, which forms a triple. We want to define an ambient isotopic…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2020-06-05 Adrian P. C. Lim

I present a way to visualize the concept of curved spacetime. The result is a curved surface with local coordinate systems (Minkowski Systems) living on it, giving the local directions of space and time. Relative to these systems, special…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Rickard Jonsson

Orientability is an important topological property of spacetime manifolds. It is generally assumed that a test for spatial orientability requires a journey across the whole 3-space to check for orientation-reversing paths. Since such a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-07-27 N. A. Lemos , M. J. Reboucas

In this work, we present two alternative yet equivalent representation formulae for Whitney forms that are valid for any choice of coordinates, and generalizes the original characterization of Whitney forms in Whitney (1957) that requires…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-03-03 Joe Salamon , John Moody , Melvin Leok

Causality is pivotal to our understanding of the world, presenting itself in different forms: information-theoretic and relativistic, the former linked to the flow of information, the latter to the structure of space-time. Leveraging a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-13 Maarten Grothus , V. Vilasini

Learning meaningful causal representations from observations has emerged as a crucial task for facilitating machine learning applications and driving scientific discoveries in fields such as climate science, biology, and physics. This…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Jiaxu Ren , Yixin Wang , Biwei Huang

In general relativity, cosmology and quantum field theory, spacetime is assumed to be an orientable manifold endowed with a Lorentz metric that makes it spatially and temporally orientable. The question as to whether the laws of physics…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-06-08 N. A. Lemos , D. Müller , M. J. Reboucas

We propose that space-time results from collapse of the wave function of macroscopic objects, in quantum dynamics. We first argue that there ought to exist a formulation of quantum theory which does not refer to classical time. We then…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-01-31 Tejinder P. Singh

Causality creates an asymmetry between space and time, even though the wave equation treats them on equal footing. In this work, we leverage this asymmetry to construct a cross-mapping between space and time. This cross-mapping is applied…

Optics · Physics 2015-04-09 Mohamed A. Salem , Christophe Caloz

The dynamics of pseudo-classical spinning particles in spacetime of gravitational plane waves of general polarization and harmonic profile is studied. The resulting equations of motion are solved exactly and the results are compared with…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-25 Morteza Mohseni

The Minkowski functionals are a mathematical tool to quantify morphological features of patterns. Some applications to the matter distribution in galaxy catalogues and N-body simulations are reviewed, with an emphasis on the effects of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Alvaro Dominguez

Suppose we assume that (a) information about a black hole is encoded in its Hawking radiation and (b) causality is not violated to leading order in gently curved spacetime. Then we argue that spacetime cannot just be described as a manifold…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-11-22 Samir D. Mathur

I present a scheme of drawing causal diagrams based on physically motivated mathematical models expressed in terms of temporal differential equations. They provide a means of better understanding the processes and causal relationships…

Classical Physics · Physics 2015-09-07 Paul Kinsler

Estimating future events is a difficult task. Unlike humans, machine learning approaches are not regularized by a natural understanding of physics. In the wild, a plausible succession of events is governed by the rules of causality, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-01 Athanasios Vlontzos , Henrique Bergallo Rocha , Daniel Rueckert , Bernhard Kainz

A simple visual representation of Minkowski spacetime appropriate for a student with a background in geometry and algebra is presented. Minkowski spacetime can be modeled with a Euclidean 4-space to yield accurate visualizations as…

Physics Education · Physics 2015-06-03 Don V. Black , M. Gopi , F. Wessel , R. Pajarola , F. Kuester

Causality is fundamental to science, but it appears in several different forms. One is relativistic causality, which is tied to a space-time structure and forbids signalling outside the future. A second is an operational notion of causation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-14 V. Vilasini , Roger Colbeck