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The motion of particles on spherical $1 + 3$ dimensional spacetimes can, under some assumptions, be described by the curves on a 2-dimensional manifold, the optical and Jacobi manifolds for null and timelike curves, respectively. In this…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-08-01 Pedro V. P. Cunha , Carlos A. R. Herdeiro , João P. A. Novo

We clarify the relation between noncommutative spacetimes and multifractional geometries, two quantum-gravity-related approaches where the fundamental description of spacetime is not given by a classical smooth geometry. Despite their…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-02-06 Gianluca Calcagni , Michele Ronco

Modern advances in transformation optics and electromagnetic metamaterials made possible experimental demonstrations of highly unusual curvilinear optical spaces, such as various geometries necessary for electromagnetic cloaking. Recently…

Optics · Physics 2014-09-17 Igor I. Smolyaninov

In this paper, we get the time evolution equations of the curvature and torsion of the evolving spacelike curves in the Minkowski space. Also, we give inextensible evolutions of timelike ruled surfaces that are produced by the timelike…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-02-23 Dae Won Yoon , Zuhal Kucukarslan Yuzbasi , Ebru Cavlak Aslan

A criticism sometimes made of the causal set quantum gravity program is that there is no practical scheme for identifying manifoldlike causal sets and finding embeddings of them into manifolds. A computational method for constructing an…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Joe Henson

Quantum mechanics in the Rigged Hilbert Space formulation describes quasistationary phenomena mathematically rigorously in terms of Gamow vectors. We show that these vectors exhibit microphysical irreversibility, related to an intrinsic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 C. Schulte , R. Twarock , A. Bohm

In this study, we investigate the existence theorems for timelike ruled surfaces in Minkowski 3-space. We obtain a general system and give the existence theorems for a timelike ruled surface according to Gaussian curvature, distribution…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-10-01 Mehmet Önder

The quantum mechanical motion of a relativistic particle in a non-continuous spacetime is investigated. The spacetime model is a dense, rationale subset of two-dimensional Minkowski spacetime. Solutions of the Dirac equation are calculated…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 A. Kull

The Alcubierre warp drive metric is a spacetime geometry featuring a spacetime distortion, called warp bubble, where a massive particle inside it acquires global superluminal velocities, or warp speeds. This work presents solutions of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-02-10 Osvaldo L. Santos-Pereira , Everton M. C. Abreu , Marcelo B. Ribeiro

Space-time-modulated systems have attracted significant interest over the past decade due to their ability to manipulate electromagnetic waves in unprecedented ways. Here, we introduce a new type of space-time-modulated structure, the…

Optics · Physics 2024-11-01 Amir Bahrami , Klaas De Kinder , Zhiyu Li , Christophe Caloz

Many results have been recently obtained regarding the power of hypothetical closed time-like curves (CTCs) in quantum computation. Here we show that the one-way model of measurement-based quantum computation encompasses in a natural way…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-01-27 Raphael Dias da Silva , Ernesto F. Galvao , Elham Kashefi

Quantum gravity in a closed universe faces two a priori distinct yet seemingly related issues: the problem of time and the fact that its Hilbert space dimension is one. Both have been argued to be resolvable by formulating physics relative…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-06-27 Zixia Wei

Defining Lorentzian Sabban frame of the unit speed time-like curves on de Sitter 2-space $\mathbb{S}^{2}_{1}$ and introducing space-like height function on the unit speed time-like curves on $\mathbb{S}^{2}_{1}$, the invariants of the unit…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-02-24 Murat Babaarslan , Yusuf Yayli

Einstein field equations show how matter curve spacetime, but, does curved spacetime creates matter? And if so, can we have geometrical foundations to every matter in the universe? In this note, we suggest an approach to derive non-general…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-05-24 Tomer Shushi

We study the limits to the localizability of events and reference frames in the $\kappa$-Minkowski quantum spacetime. Our main tool will be a representation of the $\kappa$-Minkowski commutation relations between coordinates, and the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-04-17 Fedele Lizzi , Mattia Manfredonia , Flavio Mercati , Timothé Poulain

We begin from the generalised eight-dimensional Minkowski spacetime structure, previously developed in Clifford geometric algebra $ C\ell(\Re^3) $. We propose that this is the correct algebraic representation for physical three-dimensional…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-10-01 James M. Chappell , David L. Berkahn , Derek Abbott

An effective theory of gravity in the infrared is proposed, which involves the determinant of the metric relative to the determinant of a prior metric taken to be that of Minkowski spacetime. This effective theory can be interpreted as a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-02-15 F. R. Klinkhamer

We show how quantum fields can be used to measure the curvature of spacetime. In particular, we find that knowledge of the imprint that spacetime curvature leaves in the correlators of quantum fields suffices, in principle, to reconstruct…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-03-02 Mehdi Saravani , Siavash Aslanbeigi , Achim Kempf

The metric space-time is revised as a priori existing. It is substituted by the world continuum endowed only with the affine connection. The metric, accompanied by the tensor Goldstone boson, is to emerge during the spontaneous breaking of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Yu. F. Pirogov

We provide a general formulation of the spin-orbit coupling on a 2D curved surface. Considering the wide applicability of spin-orbit effect in spinor-based condensed matter physics, a general spin-orbit formulation could aid the study of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-01-18 Seng Ghee Tan , Che Chun Huang , Mansoor B. A. Jalil , Zhuobin Siu