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It seems to be a common belief that the space in which we live is a space-time manifold of dimension at least four. In the present article we wish to draw attention to a slightly different possibility - a space-time pseudomanifold (or even…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-04-13 Amos Altshuler

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

The tenfold classification provides a powerful framework for organizing topological phases of matter based on symmetry and spatial dimension. However, it does not offer a systematic method for transitioning between classes or engineering…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-08-08 Amit Goft , Eric Akkermans

We show that a topology can be defined in the four dimensional space-time of special relativity so as to obtain a topological semigroup for time. The Minkowski 4-vector character of space-time elements as well as the key properties of…

Classical Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 S. Wickramasekara

I explain in what sense the structure of space and time is probably vague or indefinite, a notion I define. This leads to the mathematical representation of location in space and time by a vague interval. From this, a principle of…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2023-08-24 Hanoch Ben-Yami

Close to the Planck energy scale, the quantum nature of space-time reveals itself and all forces, including gravity, should be unified so that all interactions correspond to just one underlying symmetry. In the absence of a full quantum…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-03-17 Mairi Sakellariadou

Necessary and sufficient conditions allowing a previously unknown space to be explored through scanning operators are reexamined with respect to measure theory. Generalized conceptions of distances and dimensionality evaluation are…

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

Geometry constrains but does not dictate the topology of the 3--dimensional space. In a locally spatially homogeneous and isotropic universe, however, the topology of its spatial section dictates its geometry. We show that, besides…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 M. J. Reboucas , J. S. Alcaniz

It is shown that if a space-time has non-compact Cauchy surface, then its topological, differentiable, and causal structure are completely determined by a class of compact subsets of its Cauchy surface. Since causal structure determines its…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Do-Hyung Kim

Classical macroscopic space-time is pictured in terms of Rydberg states of an underlying discritzed `atomic' quantum geometry at Planck scales. While quantum geometry on such scales involves several very short lived transitions changing…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-07-28 C. Sivaram

At present we have only the very successful but phenomenological Einstein geometrical modelling of the spacetime phenomenon. This geometrical model provides a `container' for other theories, in particular the quantum field theories. Here we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-28 Reginald T. Cahill , Christopher M. Klinger

Understanding the geometry and topology of configuration or conformational spaces of molecules has relevant applications in chemistry and biology such as the proteins folding problem, drug design and the structure activity relationship…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2019-07-19 Ingrid Membrillo-Solis , Mariam Pirashvili , Lee Steinberg , Jacek Brodzki , Jeremy G. Frey

We show that there exists a canonical topology, naturally connected with the causal site of J. D. Christensen and L. Crane, a pointless algebraic structure motivated by quantum gravity. Taking a causal site compatible with Minkowski space,…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-08-05 Martin Maria Kovár

Any two infinite-dimensional (separable) Hilbert spaces are unitarily isomorphic. The sets of all their self-adjoint operators are also therefore unitarily equivalent. Thus if all self-adjoint operators can be observed, and if there is no…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-06 A. P. Balachandran

Normally we judge Topological shapes analytically but they hide significant amount of data in them about coordinate planes and ordered & unordered paris. In this article we will build our intuition and find those datas.

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2019-06-04 Kazi Abu Rousan

The causal structure of space-time offers a natural notion of an opposite or orthogonal in the logical sense, where the opposite of a set is formed by all points non time-like related with it. We show that for a general space-time the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-05-04 H. Casini

Abstract axiomatic formulation of mathematical structures are extensively used to describe our physical world. We take here the reverse way. By making basic assumptions as starting point, we reconstruct some features of both geometry and…

History and Overview · Mathematics 2021-02-12 B. F. Rizzuti , L. M. Gaio , C. Duarte

By analogy with the formation of space crystals, crystalline structures can also appear in the time domain. While in the case of space crystals we often ask about periodic arrangements of atoms in space at a moment of a detection, in time…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2019-05-31 K. Giergiel , A. Dauphin , M. Lewenstein , J. Zakrzewski , K. Sacha

This review aims to cover the central aspects of current research in cosmic topology from a topological and observational perspective. Beginning with an overview of the basic concepts of cosmology, it is observed that though a determinant…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-14 Jaspreet Sandhu

The theory of geometric structures on a surface with nonempty boundary can be developed by using a decomposition of such a surface into hexagons, in the same way as the theory of geometric structures on a surface without boundary is…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2012-10-02 Athanase Papadopoulos , Guillaume Théret