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We rewrite simplicially the standard definitions of a complete first order theory, a model of it, and various characterisations of stability of a complete first order theory. In our reformulations the simplicial language replaces the…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2025-10-02 Misha Gavrilovich

We investigate the causal structure of two-sheeted space-times using the tools of Lorentzian spectral triples. We show that the noncommutative geometry of these spaces allows for causal relations between the two sheets. The computation is…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-23 Nicolas Franco , Michał Eckstein

We formulate and prove a synthetic Lorentzian Cartan-Hadamard theorem. This result both transfers the corresponding statement for locally convex metric spaces established by S. Alexander and R. Bishop to the Lorentzian setting, and…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2026-01-22 Darius Erös , Sebastian Gieger

The first goal of this paper is to show that discreteness, locality, and relativistic covariance can peacefully coexist if the ordinary spacetime (OST) is replaced with phase spacetime (PST) as a geometric background of a Poisson process,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-05-03 Roman Sverdlov

Linear topological spaces with partial ordering (linear kinematics) are studied. They are defined by a set of 8 axioms implying that topology, linear structure and ordering are compatible with each other. Most of the results are valid for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Victor Revoltovich Krym

What is the shape of space in a spacetime? One way of addressing this issue is to consider edgeless spacelike submanifolds of the spacetime. An alternative is to foliate the spacetime by timelike curves and consider the quotient obtained by…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 Steven G. Harris , Robert J. low

The Causal Set Theory (CST) approach to quantum gravity is motivated by the observation that, associated with any causal spacetime (M,g) is a poset (M,<), with the order relation < corresponding to the spacetime causal relation. Spacetime…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Sumati Surya

Stone locales together with continuous maps form a coreflective subcategory of spectral locales and perfect maps. A proof in the internal language of an elementary topos was previously given by the second-named author. This proof can be…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Ayberk Tosun , Martín Hötzel Escardó

Bell non-local correlations cannot be naturally explained in a fixed causal structure. This serves as a motivation for considering models where no global assumption is made beyond logical consistency. The assumption of a fixed causal order…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-04-06 Ämin Baumeler , Stefan Wolf

We introduce several new notions of (sectional) curvature bounds for Lorentzian pre-length spaces: On the one hand, we provide convexity/concavity conditions for the (modified) time separation function, and, on the other hand, we study…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-01-14 Tobias Beran , Michael Kunzinger , Felix Rott

We prove a splitting theorem for Lorentzian pre-length spaces with global non-positive timelike curvature. Additionally, we extend the first variation formula to spaces with any timelike curvature bound, either from above or below, and…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-01-21 Joe Barton , Tobias Beran , Mauricio Che , Sebastian Gieger , Jona Röhrig , Felix Rott

I take a constructive look at Dieter Spreen's treatment of effective topological spaces and the Kreisel-Lacombe-Shoenfield-Tseitin (KLST) continuity theorem. Transferring Spreen's ideas from classical computability theory and numbered sets…

Logic · Mathematics 2023-07-18 Andrej Bauer

Many classical results in relativity theory concerning spherically symmetric space-times have easy generalizations to warped product space-times, with a two-dimensional Lorentzian base and arbitrary dimensional Riemannian fibers. We first…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-12-20 Xinliang An , Willie Wai Yeung Wong

The class of LOTS (linearly ordered topological spaces, i.e. spaces equipped with a topology generated by a linear order) contains many important spaces, like the set of real numbers, the set of rational numbers and the ordinals. Such…

General Topology · Mathematics 2018-03-30 Kyriakos Papadopoulos

De Vries Duality generalizes Stone duality between Boolean algebras and Stone spaces to a duality between de Vries algebras (complete Boolean algebras equipped with a subordination relation satisfying some axioms) and compact Hausdorff…

Logic · Mathematics 2022-06-28 Guillaume Massas

We introduce a notion of Lorentzian metric space which drops the boundedness condition from our previous work and argue that the properties defining our spaces are minimal. In fact, they are defined by three conditions given by (a) the…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2025-05-13 A. Bykov , E. Minguzzi , S. Suhr

The path spaces of a directed graph play an important role in the study of graph $\css$. These are topological spaces that were originally constructed using groupoid and inverse semigroup techniques. In this paper, we develop a simple,…

Operator Algebras · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Alan L. T. Paterson , Amy E. Welch

General definitions for causal structures on manifolds of dimension d+1>2 are presented for the topological category and for any differentiable one. Locally, these are given as cone structures via local (pointwise) homeomorphic or…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-25 Martin Rainer

We give an exact mathematical construction of a spacelike order $<$, which is dual to the standard chronological order $\ll$ in the $n$-dimensional Minkowski space $M^n$, and we discuss its order-theoretic, geometrical as well as its…

General Physics · Physics 2020-03-30 Waleed Al-Qallaf , Kyriakos Papadopoulos

This is the second in a series of three notes on an investigation into core regular double Stone algebras, CRDSA, which are meant to be read in order. This note begins our investigation of duality for CRDSA through bi-topological spaces.…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2018-09-25 Daniel J. Clouse