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Poincar\'e held the view that geometry is a convention and cannot be tested experimentally. This position was apparently refuted by the general theory of relativity and the successful confirmation of its predictions; unfortunately,…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2007-12-14 S. Hacyan

In his 1916 ground-breaking general relativity paper Einstein had imposed a restrictive coordinate condition, his field equations were valid for coordinate systems which are unimodular. Later, Einstein published a paper on gravitational…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2016-02-15 Galina Weinstein

While Newtonian gravity is an adequate model for current geophysical exploration, Einsteinian gravity, based on the connection between free fall and warped time, has superseded Newtonian gravity as our best understanding of the universe.…

The purpose of this book is to give an exposition of geometry, from a point of view which complements Klein's Erlangen program. The emphasis is on extending the classical Euclidean geometry to the finite case, but it goes beyond that. After…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2019-09-09 René De Vogelaere

In this article, we consider Einstein-type manifolds with boundary which generalizes important geometric equations, like static vacuum and static perfect fluid. We investigate some geometric inequalities for those manifolds. Then, we…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-01-24 Maria Andrade

In this article we discuss how to construct canonical \emph{strong} Carrollian geometries at time/space like infinity of projectively compact Ricci flat Einstein manifolds $(M,g)$ and discuss the links between the underlying projective…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-12-24 Jack Borthwick , Yannick Herfray

Relativity was Einstein's main research program and scientific project. It was an open-ended program that developed throughout Einstein's scientific career, giving rise to special relativity, general relativity and unified field theory. In…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2018-01-19 Hisham Ghassib

Understanding geometric concepts, such as distance and shape, is essential for understanding the real world and also for many vision tasks. To incorporate such information into a visual representation of a scene, we propose learning to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Hyundo Lee , Inwoo Hwang , Hyunsung Go , Won-Seok Choi , Kibeom Kim , Byoung-Tak Zhang

Einstein's biographer Albrecht F\"olsing explained: Einstein presented his field equations on November 25, 1915, but six days earlier, on November 20, Hilbert had derived the identical field equations for which Einstein had been searching…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2014-12-12 Galina Weinstein

We investigate the enumerative geometry of point configurations in projective space. We define "projective configuration counts": these enumerate configurations of points in projective space such that certain specified subsets are in fixed…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2026-02-09 Alex Fink , Navid Nabijou , Rob Silversmith

Sketched gradient algorithms have been recently introduced for efficiently solving the large-scale constrained Least-squares regressions. In this paper we provide novel convergence analysis for the basic method {\it Gradient Projection…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-06-05 Junqi Tang , Mohammad Golbabaee , Mike Davies

Traditional approaches to the study of the dynamics of spacetime curvature in a very real sense hide the intricacies of the nonlinear regime. Whether it be huge formulae, or mountains of numerical data, standard methods of presentation make…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-05-30 Kayll Lake

There is a myth that Einstein's discovery of general relativity was due to his following beautiful mathematics to discover new insights about nature. I argue that this is an incorrect reading of the history and that what Einstein did was to…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2015-12-24 Lee Smolin

Humans show high-level of abstraction capabilities in games that require quickly communicating object information. They decompose the message content into multiple parts and communicate them in an interpretable protocol. Toward equipping…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-28 Stephan Alaniz , Massimiliano Mancini , Anjan Dutta , Diego Marcos , Zeynep Akata

This is a review with some comments on the A. Einstein`s 1911 paper, which he published as one of his many attempts of the general theory of relativity. The main point of the idea is to propose a new approach about light and its motion as…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2023-05-23 Rigoberto Martinez

A fascinating and deep question about nature is what one would see if one could probe space and time at smaller and smaller distances. Already the 19th-century founders of modern geometry contemplated the possibility that a piece of empty…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 R. Loll , J. Ambjorn , J. Jurkiewicz

We analyze the generic structure of Einstein tensor projected onto a 2-D spacelike surface S defined by unit timelike and spacelike vectors u_i and n_i respectively, which describe an accelerated observer (see text). Assuming that flow…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-02-01 Dawood Kothawala

Minkowski diagrams in 1+1 dimensional flat space-time are given a strictly geometric derivation, directly from two gedanken experiments incorporating the principle of the constancy of the velocity of light and the principle of (special)…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 N. David Mermin

We describe a method to obtain $\mathrm{SU}(3)$-structures and $\mathrm{G}_2$-structures on 6 and 7-dimensional manifolds respectively, such that its associated metric is Einstein. More concretely, we have that different classes of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-03-13 Víctor Manero

In his first November 4, 1915 paper Einstein wrote the Lagrangian form of his field equations. In the fourth November 25, 1915 paper, Einstein added a trace term of the energy-momentum tensor on the right-hand side of the generally…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2013-10-25 Galina Weinstein