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Methodology · Statistics 2026-05-29 Sizhu Lu , Lei Shi , Peng Ding

Entanglement entropy in causal sets offers a fundamentally covariant characterisation of quantum field degrees of freedom. A known result in this context is that the degrees of freedom consist of a number of contributions that have…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-11-27 Théo Keseman , Hans J. Muneesamy , Yasaman K. Yazdi

The causal structure of a strongly causal spacetime is particularly well endowed. Not only does it determine the conformal spacetime geometry when the spacetime dimension n >2, as shown by Malament and Hawking-King-McCarthy (MHKM), but also…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-03-18 Onkar Parrikar , Sumati Surya

Dual structures on causal sets called timelets are introduced, being discrete analogs of global time coordinates. Algebraic and geometrical features of the set of timelets on a causal set are studied. A characterization of timelets in terms…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-01-26 Roman Zapatrin

We review a formulation of the entanglement entropy of a quantum scalar field in terms of its spacetime two-point correlation functions. We discuss applications of this formulation to studying entanglement entropy in various settings in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-12-06 Yasaman K. Yazdi

A class of n-dimensional Poisson systems reducible to an unperturbed harmonic oscillator shall be considered. In such case, perturbations leaving invariant a given symplectic leaf shall be investigated. Our purpose will be to analyze the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2020-01-31 Isaac A. García , Benito Hernández-Bermejo

Estimating future events is a difficult task. Unlike humans, machine learning approaches are not regularized by a natural understanding of physics. In the wild, a plausible succession of events is governed by the rules of causality, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-01 Athanasios Vlontzos , Henrique Bergallo Rocha , Daniel Rueckert , Bernhard Kainz

Several classes of directed acyclic graphs have been investigated in the last two decades, in the context of the Causal Set Program, in search for good discrete models of spacetime. We introduce some statistical indicators that can be used…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-07-04 Tommaso Bolognesi , Alexander Lamb

In order to understand the detailed mechanism by which a fundamental discreteness can provide a finite entanglement entropy, we consider the entanglement entropy of two classes of free massless scalar fields on causal sets that are well…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-07-19 Alessio Belenchia , Dionigi M. T. Benincasa , Marco Letizia , Stefano Liberati

We study the utility of chains defined on causal sets in estimating continuum properties like the curvature, the proper time and the spacetime dimension through a numerical analysis. In particular, we show that in $\text{dS}_2$ and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-11-11 Joachim Kambor , Nomaan X

A more complete understanding of entanglement entropy in a covariant manner could inform the search for quantum gravity. We build on work in this direction by extending previous results to disjoint regions in $1+1$D. We investigate the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-04-11 Callum F. Duffy , Joshua Y. L. Jones , Yasaman K. Yazdi

We present an exhaustive classification of the 2644 causally complete spaces of input histories on 3 events with binary inputs, together with the algorithm used to find them. This paper forms the supplementary material for a trilogy of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-03-20 Stefano Gogioso , Nicola Pinzani

The local structure of disordered jammed packings of monodisperse spheres without friction, generated by the Lubachevsky-Stillinger algorithm, is studied for packing fractions above and below 64%. The structural similarity of the particle…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-04 Sebastian C. Kapfer , Walter Mickel , Klaus Mecke , Gerd E. Schröder-Turk

We discuss the asymptotic structure of spacetimes, presenting a new construction of ideal points at infinity and introducing useful topologies on the completed space. Our construction is based on structures introduced by Geroch, Kronheimer,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Donald Marolf , Simon F. Ross

Given two 2-level factors of interest, a 2^2 split-plot design} (a) takes each of the $2^2=4$ possible factorial combinations as a treatment, (b) identifies one factor as `whole-plot,' (c) divides the experimental units into blocks, and (d)…

Methodology · Statistics 2016-02-15 Anqi Zhao , Peng Ding , Tirthankar Dasgupta

We are given k points (events) in (n+1)-dimensional Minkowski space. Using the theory of hyperplane arrangments and chromatic polynomials, we obtain information the number of different orders in which the events can occur in different…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Richard P. Stanley

We propose a structure called a causal site to use as a setting for quantum geometry, replacing the underlying point set. The structure has an interesting categorical form, and a natural "tangent 2-bundle," analogous to the tangent bundle…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 J. Daniel Christensen , Louis Crane

A random recursive cell splitting scheme of the $2$-dimensional unit sphere is considered, which is the spherical analogue of the STIT tessellation process from Euclidean stochastic geometry. First-order moments are computed for a large…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-11-06 Christian Deuß , Julia Hörrmann , Christoph Thaele

I present aspects of causal set theory (a research programme in quantum gravity) as being en route to achieving a reduction of Lorentzian geometry to causal sets. I take reduction in philosophers' sense; and I argue that the prospects are…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2024-01-30 Jeremy Butterfield

We investigate the causal structure of two-sheeted space-times using the tools of Lorentzian spectral triples. We show that the noncommutative geometry of these spaces allows for causal relations between the two sheets. The computation is…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-23 Nicolas Franco , Michał Eckstein