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Inspired by previous work in 2+1 dimensional quantum gravity, which found evidence for a discretization of time in the quantum theory, we reexamine the issue for the case of pure Lorentzian gravity with vanishing cosmological constant and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-09-28 T. G. Budd , R. Loll

After a review of the existing theory of non-inertial frames and mathematical observers in Minkowski space-time we give the explicit expression of a family of such frames obtained from the inertial ones by means of point-dependent Lorentz…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-20 Horace W. Crater , Luca Lusanna

The equivalence postulate approach to quantum mechanics aims to formulate quantum mechanics from a fundamental geometrical principle. Underlying the formulation there exists a basic cocycle condition which is invariant under…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-06-20 Alon E. Faraggi , Marco Matone

We present an elementary system of axioms for the geometry of Minkowski spacetime. It strikes a balance between a simple and streamlined set of axioms and the attempt to give a direct formalization in first-order logic of the standard…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2020-07-28 Lorenzo Cocco , Joshua Babic

15 years ago Dmitry Diakonov wrote the paper "Towards lattice-regularized Quantum Gravity", arXiv:1109.0091. In his approach, gravity with metric and tetrads arise from pre-geometric quantum fields leading to unusual dimensions of physical…

General Physics · Physics 2026-02-26 G. E. Volovik

In the search of a mathematical basis for quantum mechanics, in order to render it self-consistent and rationally understandable, we find that the best approach is to adopt E. Cartan's way for discovering spinors; that is to start from…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Paolo Budinich

We establish a lower bound on the total mass of the time slices of (n + 1)-dimensional asymptotically flat standard static spacetimes under the timelike convergence condition. The inequality can be viewed equivalently as a Minkowski-type…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-11 Brian Harvie

A quantum deformation of the conformal algebra of the Minkowskian spacetime in $(3+1)$ dimensions is identified with a deformation of the $(4+1)$-dimensional AdS algebra. Both Minkowskian and AdS first-order non-commutative spaces are…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-26 Angel Ballesteros , N Rossano Bruno , Francisco J. Herranz

Continuous symmetries generated with observables of a quantum theory in the Minkowski spacetime are discussed. An example of an originated in this way algebra of observables is the algebra of observables of the canonical quantum theory,…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2008-07-17 V. V. Khruschov

We introduce a framework of structural approximation to represent Lorentz-invariant Minkowski space-time as the limit of finite cyclic lattices, each equipped with the action of a finite quasi-Lorentz group. This construction provides a…

General Physics · Physics 2026-04-21 Boris Zilber

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

The geometry of 2D Minkowski spacetime $\mathbb{R}^{1,1}$ (or Minkowski plane) is similar but fundamentally different from the more familiar Euclidean plane geometry. This note gives an elementary discussion on some basic properties of a…

Classical Physics · Physics 2024-08-13 Yan Cao

We work on a 4-manifold equipped with Lorentzian metric $g$ and consider a volume-preserving diffeomorphism which is the unknown quantity of our mathematical model. The diffeomorphism defines a second Lorentzian metric $h$, the pullback of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2021-01-05 Matteo Capoferri , Dmitri Vassiliev

In this paper, we prove the nonlinear stability in exponential time of Minkowki space-time with a translation space-like Killing field. In the presence of such a symmetry, the 3 + 1 vacuum Einstein equations reduce to the 2 + 1 Einstein…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-12-22 Cécile Huneau

Massive spinning particle in $6d$-Minkowski space is described as a mechanical system with the configuration space $R^{5,1} \times CP^3$. The action functional of the model is unambiguously determined by the requirement of identical…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-09-06 S. L. Lyakhovich , A. A. Sharapov , K. M. Shekhter

The space time that is used in relativistic Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Field Theory is the Minkowski space time. Yet, as pointed out by several scholars this classical space time is incompatible with the Heisenberg Uncertainity…

General Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 B. G. Sidharth

In \cite{AminMoc} we defined the Minkowski superspace $SM(4,4\vert \lambda, \mu)$ as the invariant of the Poincare supergroup of supertransformations, which is a solution of Killing superequations. In the present paper we use formulae of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-04-16 Asya V. Aminova , Mikhail Kh. Lyulinsky

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

The classical spinning particles are considered such that quantization of classical model leads to an irreducible massive representation of the Poincar\'e group. The class of gauge equivalent classical particle world lines is shown to form…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-11-29 D. S. Kaparulin , S. L. Lyakhovich

Minkowski Space is the simplest four-dimensional Lorentzian Manifold, being topologically trivial and globally flat, and hence the simplest model of spacetime--from a General-Relativistic point of view. But this does not mean that it is…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-02 Domenico Giulini