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This paper is dedicated to give a concise introduction to the theory of causal fermion systems. After putting the theory of causal fermion systems into the historical context, we recall fundamental physical preliminaries. Afterwards, we…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2021-11-16 Christoph Langer

The theory of causal fermion systems is an approach to describe fundamental physics. Giving quantum mechanics, general relativity and quantum field theory as limiting cases, it is a candidate for a unified physical theory. We here give a…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-08-11 Felix Finster , Johannes Kleiner

The theory of causal fermion systems is an approach to describe fundamental physics. We here introduce the mathematical framework and give an overview of the objectives and current results.

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-05-19 Felix Finster

Causal fermion systems are introduced as a general mathematical framework for formulating relativistic quantum theory. By specializing, we recover earlier notions like fermion systems in discrete space-time, the fermionic projector and…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-06-17 Felix Finster , Andreas Grotz , Daniela Schiefeneder

This textbook introduces the basic concepts of the theory of causal fermion systems, a recent approach to the description of fundamental physics. The theory yields quantum mechanics, general relativity and quantum field theory as limiting…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-10-24 Felix Finster , Sebastian Kindermann , Jan-Hendrik Treude

We give an elementary introduction to the theory of causal fermion systems, with a focus on the underlying physical ideas and the conceptual and mathematical foundations.

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2020-06-12 Felix Finster , Maximilian Jokel

The theory of causal fermion systems is a recent approach to fundamental physics. Giving quantum mechanics, general relativity and quantum field theory as limiting cases, it is a candidate for a unified physical theory. The dynamics is…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-09-25 Felix Finster

The theory of causal fermion systems is a new physical theory which aims to describe a fundamental level of physical reality. Its mathematical core is the causal action principle. In this thesis, we develop a formalism which connects the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2020-06-26 Johannes Kleiner

We give a brief introduction to causal fermion systems with a focus on the geometric structures in space-time.

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-02-23 Felix Finster

It is shown that the theory of causal fermion systems gives rise to a novel mechanism of baryogenesis. This mechanism is worked out computationally in globally hyperbolic spacetimes in a way which enables the quantitative study in concrete…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-09-12 Felix Finster , Maximilian Jokel , Claudio F. Paganini

As toy models for space-time on the Planck scale, we consider examples of fermion systems in discrete space-time which are composed of one or two particles defined on two up to nine space-time points. We study the self-organization of the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-11-18 Alexander Diethert , Felix Finster , Daniela Schiefeneder

In this short review, we explain how and in which sense the causal action principle for causal fermion systems gives rise to classical gravity and the Einstein equations. Moreover, methods are presented for going beyond classical gravity,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-02-01 Felix Finster

This monograph introduces the basic concepts of the theory of causal fermion systems, a recent approach to the description of fundamental physics. The theory yields quantum mechanics, general relativity and quantum field theory as limiting…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-10-12 Felix Finster

Complex dynamical systems are prevalent in many scientific disciplines. In the analysis of such systems two aspects are of particular interest: 1) the temporal patterns along which they evolve and 2) the underlying causal mechanisms.…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-05-31 Nicolas-Domenic Reiter , Andreas Gerhardus , Jakob Runge

It is shown for causal fermion systems describing Minkowski-type spacetimes that an interacting causal fermion system at time $t$ gives rise to a distinguished state on the algebra generated by fermionic and bosonic field operators. The…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2022-04-19 Felix Finster , Niky Kamran

The fermionic von Neumann entropy, the fermionic entanglement entropy and the fermionic relative entropy are defined for causal fermion systems. Our definition makes use of entropy formulas for quasi-free fermionic states in terms of the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-04-16 Felix Finster , Robert H. Jonsson , Magdalena Lottner , Albert Much , Simone Murro

In the theory of causal fermion systems, the physical equations are obtained as the Euler-Lagrange equations of a causal variational principle. Studying families of critical measures of causal variational principles, a class of conserved…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-01-15 Felix Finster , Johannes Kleiner

The emergence of the concept of a causal fermion system is revisited and further investigated for the vacuum Dirac equation in Minkowski space. After a brief recap of the Dirac equation and its solution space, in order to allow for the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2020-12-15 Marco Oppio

This paper presents a novel and systematic formalism for deriving classical field equations within the framework ofcausal fermion systems, explicitly accounting for higher-order corrections such as quantum effects and those arising from…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-07-15 Felix Finster , Patrick Fischer

The causal structure of space-time offers a natural notion of an opposite or orthogonal in the logical sense, where the opposite of a set is formed by all points non time-like related with it. We show that for a general space-time the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-05-04 H. Casini
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