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In my previous work, physics/0205011, I reported several observations on special relativity, its experimental facts and its relations to quantum mechanics and statistical mechanics. These observations made us conscious: Special relativity…

General Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jian-Miin Liu

Hamiltonian gravity, relying on arbitrary choices of "space," can obscure spacetime symmetries. We present an alternative, manifestly spacetime covariant formulation that nonetheless distinguishes between "spatial" and "temporal" variables.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-11-12 Steffen Gielen , Derek K. Wise

We develop a generic spacetime model in General Relativity which can be used to build any gravitational model within General Relativity. The generic model uses two types of assumptions: (a) Geometric assumptions additional to the inherent…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-06-15 Michael Tsamparlis , Andronikos Paliathanasis

Understanding the observer-dependent nature of quantum entanglement has been a central question in relativistic quantum information. In this paper we will review key results on relativistic entanglement in flat and curved spacetime and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 Paul M. Alsing , Ivette Fuentes

I tell about different mathematical tool that is important in general relativity. The text of the book includes definition of geometrical object, concept of reference frame, geometry of metric-affinne manifold. Using this concept I learn…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-11-19 Aleks Kleyn

A common feature of all Quantum Gravity (QG) phenomenology approaches is to consider a modification of the mass shell condition of the relativistic particle to take into account quantum gravitational effects. The framework for such…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Florian Girelli , Stefano Liberati , Lorenzo Sindoni

We describe a scheme for the exploration of quantum gravity phenomenology focussing on effects that could be thought as arising from a fundamental granularity of space-time. In contrast with the simplest assumptions, such granularity is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Yuri Bonder , Daniel Sudarsky

Some of the most outstanding questions in the field of gravitation and geometry remain unsolved as a result of our limited understanding of the global structure of the spacetime geometry and the role played by global spacetime…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-09-23 M. Iftime

We analyze the foundations of Finsler gravity theories with metric compatible connections constructed on nonholonomic tangent bundles, or (pseudo) Riemannian manifolds. There are considered "minimal" modifications of Einstein gravity…

General Physics · Physics 2013-03-18 Sergiu I. Vacaru

We develop an axiomatic geometric approach and provide an unconventional review of modified gravity theories, MGTs, with modified dispersion relations, MDRs, encoding Lorentz invariance violations, LIVs, classical and quantum random…

General Physics · Physics 2018-01-22 Sergiu I. Vacaru

We reformulate the general theory of relativity in the language of Riemann-Cartan geometry. We start from the assumption that the space-time can be described as a non-Riemannian manifold, which, in addition to the metric field, is endowed…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-12 J. B. Fonseca-Neto , C. Romero , S. P. G. Martinez

Gravity is understood as a geometrization of spacetime. But spacetime is also the manifold of the boundary values of the spinless point particle in a variational approach. Since all known matter, baryons, leptons and gauge bosons are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-04 Martin Rivas

The geometric foundations of General Relativity are revisited, with particular attention to its gauge invariance, as a key to understanding the true nature of spacetime. Beyond the common image of spacetime as a deformable 'fabric' filling…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-17 Jaume de Haro , Emilio Elizalde

Local observables in (perturbative) quantum gravity are notoriously hard to define, since the gauge symmetry of gravity -- diffeomorphisms -- moves points on the manifold. In particular, this is a problem for backgrounds of high symmetry…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-11-14 Markus B. Fröb , Albert Much , Kyriakos Papadopoulos

In both quantum mechanics and relativity theory, the concept of the observer plays a critical role. However, there is no consensus on the definition of observer in these theories. Following Einstein's thought experiments, one could ask:…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-04-05 Marcin Nowakowski

In this paper we introduce a new general framework for the study of phenomenological quantum gravity theories (PQG). The key idea is the introduction of two different types of spacetime, an observer-independent spacetime (modeled by a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-21 Andrea Bevilacqua , Alice Boldrin

We consider the equivalence problem for cosmological models in four-dimensional gravity theories. A cosmological model is considered as a triple $(M, {\bf g},{\bf u})$ consisting of a spacetime $(M, {\bf g})$ and a preferred normalized…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-08-03 Lode Wylleman , Alan Coley , David McNutt , Matthew Aadne

In a previous paper [gr-qc/0104001; Class. Quant. Grav. 18 (2001) 3595-3610] we have shown that the occurrence of curved spacetime ``effective Lorentzian geometries'' is a generic result of linearizing an arbitrary classical field theory…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 C. Barcelo , S. Liberati , Matt Visser

Following Geroch, Traschen, Mars and Senovilla, we consider Lorentzian manifolds with distributional curvature tensor. Such manifolds represent spacetimes of general relativity that possibly contain gravitational waves, shock waves, and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Philippe G. LeFloch , Cristinel Mardare

In the Ashtekar-Barbero formulation of canonical general relativity based on an SU(2) connection, Lorentz covariance is a subtle issue which has been the focus of some debate. Here we present a Lorentz covariant formulation generalising the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-06-18 Steffen Gielen