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Globally hyperbolic spacetimes admitting infinitely many causal (and timelike) homotopy classes of curves joining two prescribed points, are exhibited and discussed.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-09-11 Pablo Morales Álvarez , Miguel Sánchez

We investigate the role of causality in the generalized EPRL spinfoam model introduced by Kaminski, Kisielowski, and Lewandowski (EPRL-KKL). We first propose a definition of causal structure on an arbitrary 2-complex and analyze how causal…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-25 Carlos E. Beltrán

We take the first steps to develop Conley-Zehnder Theory, as conjectured by Arnold, in the world of probability. As far as we know, this paper provides the first probabilistic theorems about the density of fixed points of symplectic twist…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2023-08-01 Álvaro Pelayo , Fraydoun Rezakhanlou

Causal discovery is the subfield of causal inference concerned with estimating the structure of cause-and-effect relationships in a system of interrelated variables, as opposed to quantifying the strength or describing the form of causal…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-03-26 Rebecca F. Supple , Hannah Worthington , Ben Swallow

Causal inference revealing causal dependencies between variables from empirical data has found applications in multiple sub-fields of scientific research. A quantum perspective of correlations holds the promise of overcoming the limitation…

We construct a 2-variable link polynomial, called $W_L$, for classical links by considering simultaneously the Kauffman state models for the Alexander and for the Jones polynomials. We conjecture that this polynomial is the product of two…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Thomas Fiedler

We study how the genus, the simplicial volume and the $L^2$-Alexander invariant of W. Li and W. Zhang can detect individual knots among all others. In particular, we use various techniques coming from hyperbolic geometry and topology to…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2016-06-23 Fathi Ben Aribi

A novel approach is developed for discovering directed connectivity between specified pairs of nodes in a high-dimensional network (HDN) of brain signals. To accurately identify causal connectivity for such specified objectives, it is…

Applications · Statistics 2025-05-06 Sipan Aslan , Hernando Ombao

The group of conformal diffeomorphisms and the group of causal automorphisms on two-dimensional globally hyperbolic spacetimes are clarified. It is shown that if spacetimes have non-compact Cauchy surfaces, then the groups are subgroups of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-12-09 Do-Hyung Kim

Identifying causal relationships is a challenging yet crucial problem in many fields of science like epidemiology, climatology, ecology, genomics, economics and neuroscience, to mention only a few. Recent studies have demonstrated that…

Hyperbolic metamaterials may be used to model a 2+1 dimensional Minkowski spacetime in which the role of time is played by one of the spatial coordinates. When a metamaterial is built and illuminated with a coherent extraordinary laser…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-11 Igor I. Smolyaninov

In this paper, we extend the symplectic quandle method, previously employed in our study of parabolic representations of knot groups, to investigate the general $SL(2,\mathbb{C})$-representations of 2-bridge ``kmot" groups. We introduce a…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2026-01-27 Kyeonghee Jo , Hyuk Kim

We introduce a variational first-order Sobolev calculus on metric measure spacetimes. The key object is the maximal weak subslope of an arbitrary causal function, which plays the role of the (Lorentzian) modulus of its differential. It is…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-03-21 Tobias Beran , Mathias Braun , Matteo Calisti , Nicola Gigli , Robert J. McCann , Argam Ohanyan , Felix Rott , Clemens Sämann

Multiple metrics have been developed to detect causality relations between data describing the elements constituting complex systems, all of them considering their evolution through time. Here we propose a metric able to detect causality…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2016-05-20 Massimiliano Zanin

We extend Donaldson's asymptotically holomorphic techniques to symplectic orbifolds. More precisely, given a symplectic orbifold such that the symplectic form defines an integer cohomology class, we prove that there exist sections of large…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2022-02-21 Fabio Gironella , Vicente Muñoz , Zhengyi Zhou

No Hopf-Rinow Theorem is possible in Lorentzian Geometry. Nonetheless, we prove that a spacetime is globally hyperbolic if and only if it is metrically complete with respect to the null distance of a time function. Our approach is based on…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-04-04 Annegret Burtscher , Leonardo García-Heveling

We develop a systematic method for analyzing the causal structure at vertices in (2+1)-dimensional Lorentzian simplicial gravity. By examining the intersection patterns of lightcones emanating from a vertex with its simplicial…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-08 Seth K. Asante , Björn Borgolte

A list of all possible causal relations in the $2$-dimensional Minkowski space $M$ is exhausted, based on the duality between timelike and spacelike in this particular case, and thirty topologies are introduced, all of them encapsulating…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-03-06 Kyriakos Papadopoulos , Nazli Kurt , Basil K. Papadopoulos

We develop relativistic causality theory in the setting of point-free topology by introducing a notion of causal coverage in ordered locales, generalising their canonical coverage relation to incorporate causal structure. This improves…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-10-21 Chris Heunen , Nesta van der Schaaf

We introduce a canonical, compact topology, which we call weakly causal, naturally generated by the causal site of J. D. Christensen and L. Crane, a pointless algebraic structure motivated by certain problems of quantum gravity. We show…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-11-14 Martin Kovár , Alena Chernikava