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There are various notions of dimension in fractal geometry to characterise (random and non-random) subsets of $\mathbb R^d$. In this expository text, we discuss their analogues for infinite subsets of $\mathbb Z^d$ and, more generally, for…

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We present a new approach to obtaining the scaling behavior of the entanglement entropy in fractional quantum Hall states from finite-size wavefunctions. By employing the torus geometry and the fact that the torus aspect ratio can be…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-13 Andreas Laeuchli , Emil J. Bergholtz , Masudul Haque

Fractal structures emerge from statistical and hierarchical processes in urban development or network evolution. In a class of efficient and robust geographical networks, we derive the size distribution of layered areas, and estimate the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-05-20 Yukio Hayashi

This work presents an analysis of fractional derivatives and fractal derivatives, discussing their differences and similarities. The fractal derivative is closely connected to Haussdorff's concepts of fractional dimension geometry. The…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-11-10 Airton Deppman , Eugenio Megias , Roman Pasechnik

In several approaches towards a quantum theory of gravity, such as group field theory and loop quantum gravity, quantum states and histories of the geometric degrees of freedom turn out to be based on discrete spacetime. The most pressing…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-08-01 Johannes Thürigen

We give a review of recent work aimed at understanding the dynamics of gravitational collapse in quantum gravity. Its goal is to provide a non-perturbative computational framework for understanding the emergence of the semi-classical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-01-09 Viqar Husain

Any space-filling packing of spheres can be cut by a plane to obtain a space-filling packing of disks. Here, we deal with space-filling packings generated using inversive geometry leading to exactly self-similar fractal packings. First, we…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-09-14 D. V. Stäger , H. J. Herrmann

In various theories of quantum gravity, one observes a change in the spectral dimension from the topological spatial dimension $d$ at large length scales to some smaller value at small, Planckian scales. While the origin of such a flow is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-04-22 Gianluca Calcagni , Daniele Oriti , Johannes Thürigen

We show that the dimension of spacetime becomes complex-valued when its short-scale geometry is invariant under a discrete scaling symmetry. This characteristic can generically arise in quantum gravities, for instance, in those based on…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-08-15 Gianluca Calcagni

We reconsider differential geometry from the point of view of the quantum theory of non-relativistic spinning particles, which provides examples of supersymmetric quantum mechanics. This enables us to encode geometrical structure in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-09-06 J. Froehlich , O. Grandjean , A. Recknagel

Using (2+$\epsilon$)-dimensional quantum gravity recently formulated by Kawai, Kitazawa and Ninomiya, we calculate the scaling dimensions of manifestly generally covariant operators in two-dimensional quantum gravity coupled to $(p,q)$…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-28 Jun Nishimura , Shinya Tamura , Asato Tsuchiya

We investigate the influence of fractal structure on material properties. We calculate the statistical correlation functions of fractal media defined by level-cut Gaussian random fields. This allows the modeling of both surface fractal and…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-10-31 Anthony Roberts , Mark Knackstedt

Fractal geometry, defined by self-similar patterns across scales, is crucial for understanding natural structures. This work addresses the fractal inverse problem, which involves extracting fractal codes from images to explain these…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Adarsh Djeacoumar , Felix Mujkanovic , Hans-Peter Seidel , Thomas Leimkühler

Given strong local Dirichlet forms and $\mathbb{R}^N$-valued functions on a metrizable space, we introduce the concepts of geodesic distance and intrinsic distance on the basis of these objects. They are defined in a geometric and an…

Probability · Mathematics 2014-06-26 Masanori Hino

Fractals are geometric shapes that can display complex and self-similar patterns found in nature (e.g., clouds and plants). Recent works in visual recognition have leveraged this property to create random fractal images for model…

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We study the diffusion equation in two-dimensional quantum gravity, and show that the spectral dimension is two despite the fact that the intrinsic Hausdorff dimension of the ensemble of two-dimensional geometries is very different from…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2009-10-31 J. Ambjorn , K. N. Anagnostopoulos , T. Ichihara , L. Jensen , Y. Watabiki

We show that the uncertainty in distance and time measurements found by the heuristic combination of quantum mechanics and general relativity is reproduced in a purely classical and flat multi-fractal spacetime whose geometry changes with…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-09-22 Gianluca Calcagni , Michele Ronco

We consider functional-integral quantisation of the moduli of all quantum metrics defined as square-lengths $a$ on the edges of a Lorentzian square graph. We determine correlation functions and find a fixed relative uncertainty $\Delta…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-01-08 Shahn Majid

We present results from a detailed numerical study of the small-scale and loop production properties of cosmic string networks, based on the largest and highest resolution string simulations to date. We investigate the non-trivial fractal…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 C. J. A. P. Martins , E. P. S. Shellard

Any acceptable quantum gravity theory must allow us to recover the classical spacetime in the appropriate limit. Moreover, the spacetime geometrical notions should be intrinsically tied to the behavior of the matter that probes them. We…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-07-03 Yuri Bonder , Chryssomalis Chryssomalakos , Daniel Sudarsky