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Causal spaces have recently been introduced as a measure-theoretic framework to encode the notion of causality. While it has some advantages over established frameworks, such as structural causal models, the theory is so far only developed…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-06-07 Simon Buchholz , Junhyung Park , Bernhard Schölkopf

The traditional Minkowski distances are induced by the corresponding Minkowski norms in real-valued vector spaces. In this work, we propose novel statistical symmetric distances based on the Minkowski's inequality for probability densities…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-01-18 Frank Nielsen

It is easy to show that the lower and the upper box dimensions of a bounded set in Euclidean space are invariant with respect to the ambient space. In this article we show that the Minkowski content of a Minkowski measurable set is also…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2015-06-05 Maja Resman

In the causal set approach, spacetime is a continuous approximation of a faithful embedded causal set. But the faithful embedded causal set describes the empty spacetime and cannot describe matter. Only faithful embedding of coarse grained…

General Physics · Physics 2010-06-14 Alexey L. Krugly

In this paper, we continue the study of the Killing symmetries of a N-dimensional generalized Minkowski space, i.e. a space endowed with a (in general non-diagonal) metric tensor, whose coefficients do depend on a set of non-metrical…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-26 Fabio Cardone , Alessio Marrani , Roberto Mignani

A poisson process $P_{\lambda}$ on $\mathbb{R}^{d}$ with causal structure inherited from the the usual Minkowski metric on $\mathbb{R}^{d}$ has a normalised discrete causal distance $D_{\lambda}(x,y)$ given by the height of the longest…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-08-17 Jan Cristina

We investigate the behavior of small subsets of causal sets that approximate Minkowski space in three, four, and five dimensions, and show that their effective dimension decreases smoothly at small distances. The details of the short…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-03-14 J. Abajian , S. Carlip

We introduce surface Minkowski tensors to characterize rotational symmetries of shapes embedded in curved surfaces. The definition is based on a modified vector transport of the shapes boundary co-normal into a reference point which…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-10 Lea Happel , Hanne Hardering , Simon Praetorius , Axel Voigt

A simple characterization of the causal automorphisms of 1+1 Minkowski spacetime is given.

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-06-23 Alfonso García-Parrado Gómez-Lobo , Ettore Minguzzi

Causality is pivotal to our understanding of the world, presenting itself in different forms: information-theoretic and relativistic, the former linked to the flow of information, the latter to the structure of space-time. Leveraging a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-13 Maarten Grothus , V. Vilasini

It is a common misconception that spacetime discreteness necessarily implies a violation of local Lorentz invariance. In fact, in the causal set approach to quantum gravity, Lorentz invariance follows from the specific implementation of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-04-08 Lisa Glaser , Sumati Surya

A characterization of causal automorphism on Minkowski spacetime is given by use of wave equation. The result shows that causal analysis of spacetime may be replaced by studies of wave equation on manifolds.

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-03 Do-Hyung Kim

We propose in this paper a framework dedicated to the construction of what we call time elastic inner products that allows embedding sets of non-uniformly sampled multivariate time series of varying lengths into vector space structures.…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2011-02-15 Pierre-François Marteau

We propose a discrete analogue of null geodesics in causal sets that are approximated by a region of 2d Minkowski spacetime, in the spirit of Kronheimer and Penrose's "grids" and "beams" for an abstract causal space. The causal set…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-02-15 Anish Bhattacharya , Abhishek Mathur , Sumati Surya

We show how the Minkowskian space-time emerges from a topologically homogeneous causal network, presenting a simple analytical derivation of the Lorentz transformations, with metric as pure event-counting. The derivation holds generally for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-09-27 Giacomo Mauro D'Ariano , Alessandro Tosini

We have generalized the results of the previous work [arXiv:2302.12209] to the case of three-dimensional (3D) spacetime with two spatial and one temporal coordinates. We have found that the flat Minkowski 3D spacetime is "well-stitched",…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-12-07 A. V. Nenashev , S. D. Baranovskii

We define a one-parameter family of canonical volume measures on Lorentzian (pre-)length spaces. In the Lorentzian setting, this allows us to define a geometric dimension - akin to the Hausdorff dimension for metric spaces - that…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-09-26 Robert J. McCann , Clemens Sämann

Causal set theory is perhaps the most minimalistic approach to quantum gravity, in the sense that it makes next to zero assumptions about the structure of spacetime below the Planck scale. Yet even with this minimalism, the continuum limit…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-05-31 Marian Boguna , Dmitri Krioukov

Nontrivial isometric embeddings for flat metrics (i.e., those which are not just planes in the ambient space) can serve as useful tools in the description of gravity in the embedding gravity approach. Such embeddings can additionally be…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-12-21 S. A. Paston , T. I. Zaitseva

The fermionic R\'enyi entanglement entropy is studied for causal diamonds in two-dimensional Minkowski spacetime. Choosing the quasi-free state describing the Minkowski vacuum with an ultraviolet regularization, a logarithmically enhanced…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-11-13 Felix Finster , Magdalena Lottner , Albert Much , Simone Murro