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One way to study the physical plausibility of closed timelike curves (CTCs) is to examine their computational power. This has been done for Deutschian CTCs (D-CTCs) and post-selection CTCs (P-CTCs), with the result that they allow for the…

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Three simple examples illustrate properties of path integral amplitudes in fixed background spacetimes with closed timelike curves: non-relativistic potential scattering in the Born approximation is non-unitary, but both an example with…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-22 H. David Politzer

Causal Dynamical Triangulations (CDT) is a methodology to define and compute the gravitational path integral, whose aim is a fully fledged nonperturbative quantum field theory of gravity and spacetime. Analogous to lattice formulations of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-08 J. Ambjørn , R. Loll

This paper deals with a study of the effects that spherically symmetric first-order metric perturbations and vacuum quantum fluctuations have on the stability of the multiply connected de Sitter spacetime recently proposed by Gott and Li.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 Pedro F. Gonzalez-Diaz

We show that, under mild conditions, the space of numerical Bridgeland stability conditions Stab(T) on a triangulated category T is complete. In particular the metric on a full component of Stab(T) for which the central charges factor…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2014-02-26 Jon Woolf

We derive the Schroedinger equation for a spinless charged particle constrained to a curved surface with electric and magnetics fields applied. The particle is confined on the surface using a thin-layer procedure, giving rise to the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-04-14 Giulio Ferrari , Giampaolo Cuoghi

Let $(X,d)$ be a compact metric space. We consider the behavior of probability measures $\mu$ with the property that $$ \int_{X} d(x, y) d\mu(y) \qquad \mbox{is independent of}~x \in X.$$ It appears that such measures, when they exist,…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2026-02-24 Stefan Steinerberger

We use a graph to define a new stability condition for algebraic moduli spaces of rational curves. We characterize when the tropical compactification of the moduli space agrees with the theory of geometric tropicalization. The…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-10-08 Andy Fry

We consider the dynamics of Dirac particles moving in the curved spaces with one coordinate subjected to compactification and thus interpolating smoothly between three- and two-dimensional spaces. We use the model of compactification, which…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-02-18 Alexander J. Silenko , Oleg V. Teryaev

We consider a two-dimensional, pure capillary drop of nearly-circular shape, having constant vorticity. We write the Craig-Sulem equations on the unit circle, then on the flat torus. We show their Hamiltonian structure and we then observe…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-06 Giuseppe La Scala

Compactification of the 5-dimensional Kaluza-Klein space-time geometry is considered. The space-time geometry is supposed to be discrete, uniform and isotropic. It is shown, that consideration of the space-time geometry as a physical…

General Physics · Physics 2011-05-13 Yuri A. Rylov

Space-time--time is a natural hybrid of Kaluza's five-dimensional geometry and Weyl's conformal space-time geometry. Translations along the secondary time dimension produce the electromagnetic gauge transformations of Kaluza--Klein theory…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Homer G. Ellis

We present here three new solutions of Brans-Dicke theory for a stationary geometry with cylindrical symmetry in the presence of matter in rigid rotation with $T^\mu_\mu\neq 0$. All the solutions have eternal closed timelike curves in some…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 Luis A. Anchordoqui , Santiago E. Perez Bergliaffa , Marta L. Trobo , Graciela S. Birman

Any given prescription of quantum time travel necessarily endows a Hilbert space to the chronology-violating (CV) system on the closed timelike curve (CTC). However, under the two foremost models, Deutsch's prescription (D-CTCs) and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-10 Lachlan G. Bishop , Fabio Costa , Timothy C. Ralph

We derive, in 2+1 dimensions, classical solutions for metric and motion of two or more spinning particles, in the conformal Coulomb gauge introduced previously. The solutions are exact in the $N$-body static case, and are perturbative in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 M. Ciafaloni , P. Valtancoli

Closed Time-like curves (CTC) in Cosmic strings in teleparallel $T_{4}$ gravity are forbidden.This result shown here in $T_{4}$ was shown by Soleng (Phys.Rev.D49 (1994)1124) also to be valid in Einstein-Cartan (EC) gravity.Here we show that…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 L. C. Garcia de Andrade

Discrete (DTCs) and continuous time crystals (CTCs) are novel dynamical many-body states, that are characterized by robust self-sustained oscillations, emerging via spontaneous breaking of discrete or continuous time translation symmetry.…

The initial value problem is well-defined on a class of spacetimes broader than the globally hyperbolic geometries for which existence and uniqueness theorems are traditionally proved. Simple examples are the time-nonorientable spacetimes…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 John L. Friedman

In this paper we study the geometry of a certain class of compact dynamical horizons with a time-dependent induced metric in locally rotationally symmetric class II spacetimes. We first obtain a compactness condition for embedded…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-03-26 Abbas M. Sherif , Peter K. S. Dunsby

We establish spectral rigidity for spherically symmetric manifolds with boundary and interior interfaces determined by discontinuities in the metric under certain conditions. Rather than a single metric, we allow two distinct metrics in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-12-08 Joonas Ilmavirta , Maarten V. de Hoop , Vitaly Katsnelson