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We provide a rigorous study on dimensions of fractal interpolation function defined on a closed and bounded interval of $\mathbb{R}$ which is associated to a continuous function with respect to a base function, scaling functions and a…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2020-12-01 S. Verma , S. Jha

The degree by which a function can be differentiated need not be restricted to integer values. Usually most of the field equations of physics are taken to be second order, curiosity asks what happens if this is only approximately the case…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-06-23 Mark D. Roberts

We analyze the size and evolution of quantum fluctuations of cosmologically relevant geometric observables, in the context of the effective relational cosmological dynamics of GFT models of quantum gravity. We consider the fluctuations of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-09-23 Luca Marchetti , Daniele Oriti

Breast cancer exhibits intricate morphological and dynamical heterogeneity across cellular, tissue, and tumor scales, posing challenges to conventional modeling approaches that fail to capture its nonlinear, self-similar, or self-affine,…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2025-11-18 Abhijeet Das , Ramray Bhat , Mohit Kumar Jolly

In this paper, we expand on previous work describing partial derivatives and metric component estimators to define tangent spaces on causal sets. Partial derivative operators are the basis vectors of the tangent space, and the metric…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-05-21 Samuel Shuman

The 2-point function is the natural object in quantum gravity for extracting critical behavior: The exponential fall off of the 2-point function with geodesic distance determines the fractal dimension $d_H$ of space-time. The integral of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-09-06 J. Ambjorn , Y. Watabiki

The purpose of this contribution is to give an introduction to quantum geometry and loop quantum gravity for a wide audience of both physicists and mathematicians. From a physical point of view the emphasis will be on conceptual issues…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-04-11 J. Fernando Barbero G.

Fractal behaviour, i.e. scale invariance in spatio-temporal dynamics, have been found to describe and model many systems in nature, in particular fluid mechanics and geophysical related geometrical objects, like the convective boundary…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-19 S. de Franciscis , J. Pascual-Granado , J. C. Suárez , A. García Hernández , R. Garrido

Four-dimensional(4D) spacetime structures are investigated using the concept of the geodesic distance in the simplicial quantum gravity. On the analogy of the loop length distribution in 2D case, the scaling relations of the boundary volume…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2009-10-28 H. S. Egawa , T. Hotta , T. Izubuchi , N. Tsuda , T. Yukawa

We summarize our work on spherically symmetric midi-superspaces in loop quantum gravity. Our approach is based on using inhomogeneous slicings that may penetrate the horizon in case there is one and on a redefinition of the constraints so…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-14 Rodolfo Gambini , Javier Olmedo , Jorge Pullin

We present an overview of a theory of complex dimensions of self-similar fractal strings, and compare this theory to the theory of varieties over a finite field from the geometric and the dynamical point of view. Then we combine the several…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Michel L. Lapidus , Machiel van Frankenhuijsen

Fractional integral operators connected with real-valued scalar functions of matrix argument are applied in problems of mathematics, statistics and natural sciences. In this article we start considering the case of a Gauss hypergeometric…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-09-09 A. M. Mathai , H. J. Haubold

The present work shows a novel fractal dimension method for shape analysis. The proposed technique extracts descriptors from the shape by applying a multiscale approach to the calculus of the fractal dimension of that shape. The fractal…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2015-06-03 André R. Backes , João B. Florindo , Odemir M. Bruno

Over the last two years, the canonical approach to quantum gravity based on connections and triads has been put on a firm mathematical footing through the development and application of a new functional calculus on the space of gauge…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-26 Abhay Ashtekar

Various scaling relations of the entanglement entropy are reviewed. Based on the scaling, I would like to point out similarity of mathematical formulation among recent topics in wide research area. In particular, the scaling plays crucial…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-12-26 Hiroaki Matsueda

Experiments on fracture surface morphologies offer increasing amounts of data that can be analyzed using methods of statistical physics. One finds scaling exponents associated with correlation and structure functions, indicating a rich…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-11 Eran Bouchbinder , Itamar Procaccia , Shani Sela

The optical spectra of fractal multilayer dielectric structures have been shown to possess spectral scalability, which has been found to be directly related to the structure's spatial (geometrical) self-similarity. Phase and amplitude…

Optics · Physics 2016-11-16 S. V. Zhukovsky , A. V. Lavrinenko , S. V. Gaponenko

We clarify what it means to have a spacetime fractal geometry in quantum gravity and show that its properties differ from those of usual fractals. A weak and a strong definition of multi-scale and multi-fractal spacetimes are given together…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-04-07 Gianluca Calcagni

We show that there exists a divergent correlation length in 2d quantum gravity for the matter fields close to the critical point provided one uses the invariant geodesic distance as the measure of distance. The corresponding…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2009-10-30 J. Ambjorn , K. N. Anagnostopoulos

The conventional mathematical methods are based on characteristic length, while urban form has no characteristic length in many aspects. Urban area is a measure of scale dependence, which indicates the scale-free distribution of urban…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-11-17 Yanguang Chen