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Gauge theory underpins the quantum field theories of the standard model, and in a previous paper was shown via a geometric approach to describe classical electromagnetism in a form which approximates QED. Here we formalize and generalize…

General Physics · Physics 2024-10-03 Adam Marsh

Classical clocks measure proper time along their worldline, and Riemannian geometry provides tools for predicting the time shown by clocks in both flat and curved spacetimes. Common approaches to time in quantum systems, based for instance…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-01-14 Joseph Balsells , Martin Bojowald

In a companion paper (Jonsson and Westman, Class. Quantum Grav. 23 (2006) 61), a generalization of optical geometry, assuming a non-shearing reference congruence, is discussed. Here we illustrate that this formalism can be applied to a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Rickard Jonsson

Stimulated by the methods applied for the observational determination of masses in the central regions of the AGNs, we examine the conditions under which, in the interior of a gravitating perfect fluid source, the geodesic motions and the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 K. Kleidis , N. K. Spyrou

We study geometric and topological properties of locally compact, geodesically complete spaces with an upper curvature bound. We control the size of singular subsets, discuss homotopical and measure-theoretic stratifications and regularity…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-07-19 Alexander Lytchak , Koichi Nagano

This article explores the overall geometric manner in which human beings make sense of the world around them by means of their physical theories; in particular, in what are nowadays called pregeometric pictures of Nature. In these, the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Diego Meschini , Markku Lehto , Johanna Piilonen

A literature review of related articles, either by affinity or by contrast, to a fundamental theory of time and space - time previously developed. It shows how from a primitive concept of preparticle and membership relation of set theory,…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2015-08-10 Maximo Garcia Sucre

Geodesic orbit equations in the Schwarzschild geometry of general relativity reduce to ordinary conic sections of Newtonian mechanics and gravity for material particles in the non-relativistic limit. On the contrary, geodesic orbit…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-04-03 Lorenzo Resca

A general theory of frames of reference proposed in a preceding publication is considered here in the framework of the post-Newtonian approximation, assuming that the frame of reference is centered on a time-like geodesic. The problem of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Ll. Bel

We formulate geodesics on a manifold in terms of a parallel transfer of a particle state vector transformed by local Lorentz and Yang-Mills symmetry groups. This formulation leads to an introduction of a canonical one-form the eigenvalues…

Classical Physics · Physics 2019-01-31 A. N. Grigorenko

There is an interesting dichotomy between a space-time metric considered as external field in a flat background and the same considered as an intrinsic part of the geometry of space-time. We shall describe and compare two other external…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-01-07 John Madore , Stefan Schraml , Peter Schupp , Julius Wess

An enquiry into the physical nature of time and space and into the ontology of quantum mechanics from a metageometric perspective, resulting from the belief that geometric thought and language are powerless to farther understanding of these…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-04-24 Diego Meschini

The aim of this paper is to extend the definition of geodesics to conical manifolds, defined as submanifolds of $\R^n$ with a finite number of singularities. We look for an approach suitable both for the local geodesic problem and for the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2010-12-30 Marco G. Ghimenti

A quantum clock cannot be modeled as a point mass moving along a single geodesic if it is in a state with nonzero position fluctuations. Instead, it is an extended object subject to tidal forces and a superposition of time dilations at…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-11 Joseph Balsells , Martin Bojowald

This research establishes an operational measurement way to express the quantum field theory in a geometrical form. In four-dimensional spacetime continuum, the orthogonal rotation is defined. It forms two sets of equations: one set is…

General Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jianhua Xiao

Based on a local approximation of the Riemannian distance on a manifold by a computationally cheap dissimilarity measure, a time discrete geodesic calculus is developed, and applications to shape space are explored. The dissimilarity…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-10-03 Martin Rumpf , Benedikt Wirth

We will highlight that despite there being various approaches to quantum gravity, there are universal approach-independent features of quantum gravity. The geometry of spacetime becomes an emergent structure, which emerges from some purely…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-04-04 Mir Faizal

In this article, we study the time-reversal properties of a generic Markovian stochastic field dynamics with Gaussian noise. We introduce a convenient functional geometric formalism that allows us to straightforwardly generalize known…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-04-15 Jérémy O'Byrne , Michael E. Cates

The notion that the geometry of our space-time is not only a static background but can be physically dynamic is well established in general relativity. Geometry can be described as shaped by the presence of matter, where such shaping…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Lukas A. Saul

The quantum mechanics description of a physical object stretched in space and stable in time from the relativistic space-time properties point of view, introduced in special theory of relativity, is considered and analysed. The mathematical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Andrey V. Novikov-Borodin