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A recently proposed algebraic representation of the causal set model of the small-scale structure of space-time of Sorkin et al. is briefly reviewed and expanded. The algebraic model suggested, called quantum causal set, is physically…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Ioannis Raptis

We formulate the generalization of the Legendrian Low conjecture of Natario and Tod (proved by Nemirovski and myself before) to the case of causally simple spacetimes. We prove a weakened version of the corresponding statement. In all known…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-05-02 Vladimir Chernov

Our outcome is structured in the following sequence: (1) a general result for indefinite Finslerian manifolds with boundary $(M,L)$ showing the equivalence between local and infinitesimal (time, light or space) convexities for the boundary…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-11-11 Jónatan Herrera , Miguel Sánchez

We introduce a canonical, compact topology, which we call weakly causal, naturally generated by the causal site of J. D. Christensen and L. Crane, a pointless algebraic structure motivated by certain problems of quantum gravity. We show…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-11-14 Martin Kovár , Alena Chernikava

The notion of G-structure is defined and various geometrical and topological aspects of such structures are discussed. A particular chain of subgroups in the affine group for Minkowski space is chosen and the canonical geometrical and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 D. H. Delphenich

We consider the reconstruction of a Lifshitz spacetime from three perspectives: differential entropy (or "hole-ography"), causal wedges and entanglement wedges. We find that not all time-varying bulk curves in vacuum Lifshitz can be…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-05-04 Simon A. Gentle , Cynthia Keeler

The subject of limit curve theorems in Lorentzian geometry is reviewed. A general limit curve theorem is formulated which includes the case of converging curves with endpoints and the case in which the limit points assigned since the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 E. Minguzzi

The reconstruction theorem deals with dynamical systems that are given by a map $T:X\to X$ of a compact metric space $X$ together with an observable $f:X \to \R$ from $X$ to the real line $\R$. In 1981, by use of Whitney's embedding…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2020-09-04 Hisao Kato

We present a short review of geometric and algebraic approach to causal cones and describe cone preserving transformations and their relationship with causal structure related to special and general theory of relativity. We describe Lie…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 Sujatha Janardhan , R. V. Saraykar

In this letter we discuss the possibility of treating the spacetime by itself as a kind of deformable body for which we can define an fundamental lattice, just like atoms in crystal lattices. We show three signs pointing in that direction.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-30 M. O. Tahim , R. R. Landim , C. A. S. Almeida

The closed-universe recollapse conjecture is studied for the spherically symmetric spacetimes. It is proven that there exists an upper bound to the lengths of timelike curves in any Tolman spacetime that possesses $S^3$ Cauchy surfaces and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-22 Gregory A. Burnett

At first we introduce the space-time manifold and we compare some aspects of Riemannian and Lorentzian geometry such as the distance function and the relations between topology and curvature. We then define spinor structures in general…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-25 Giampiero Esposito

In previous publications, we have started investigating some possible applications to the retraction theory in gravitational physics and showed that it can be very useful in providing proofs and explaining the topological bases. In the…

General Physics · Physics 2019-09-04 Nasr Ahmed , H. Rafat

The present thesis is devoted to the non-parametric reconstruction of some cosmological parameters using diverse observational datasets. The Universe is assumed to be spatially homogeneous and isotropic, thus described by the FLRW metric.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-19 Purba Mukherjee

We establish Gromov's celebrated reconstruction theorem in Lorentzian geometry. Alongside this result, we introduce and study a natural concept of isomorphy of normalized bounded Lorentzian metric measure spaces. We outline applications to…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-06-13 Mathias Braun , Clemens Sämann

This survey focuses on the geometric problem of log-surfaces, which are pairs consisting of a smooth projective surface and a reduced non-empty boundary divisor. In the first part, we focus on the geography problem for complex log-surfaces…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2026-02-02 Bartosz Naskręcki , Piotr Pokora

Topological recursion associates to a spectral curve, a sequence of meromorphic differential forms. A tangent space to the "moduli space" of spectral curves (its space of deformations) is locally described by meromorphic 1-forms, and we use…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-12-11 B Eynard

In this work, major principles of the mathematical constitution of space and the principles of construction of the physical space are presented. Generalized conceptions of distances and dimensionality evaluation are proposed, together with…

General Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Michel Bounias , Volodymyr Krasnoholovets

Some foundational results on the geometry of Lorentz-Minkowski spaces and Finsler spacetimes are obtained. We prove that the local light cone structure of a reversible Finsler spacetime with more than two dimensions is topologically the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-05-05 E. Minguzzi

It is shown that the space of null geodesics of a star-shaped causally simple subset of Minkowski space is contactomorphic to the canonical contact structure in the spherical cotangent bundle of $\mathbb{R}^n$. In the $3$-dimensional case…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-02-11 Jakob Hedicke