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We present some results, both rigorously mathematical and computational, showing unexpected relations between different identities expressing nilpotence in nonassociative algebras, and formulate a number of conjectural generalizations and…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2023-06-21 Vladimir Dotsenko

We show that the common theory of all modules over a tubular algebra (over a recursive algebraically closed field) is decidable. This result supports a long standing conjecture of Mike Prest which says that a finite-dimensional algebra…

Logic · Mathematics 2024-12-23 Lorna Gregory

A note on the property of weak contraction, which implies that all bounded solutions of a nonlinear system converge to a (possibly non-unique) equilibrium. We provide some simple results about interconnections of such systems, and a brief…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-10-13 Ian R. Manchester , Jean-Jacques E. Slotine

The multiverse view in set theory, introduced and argued for in this article, is the view that there are many distinct concepts of set, each instantiated in a corresponding set-theoretic universe. The universe view, in contrast, asserts…

Logic · Mathematics 2014-11-18 Joel David Hamkins

An element of a group is said to be reversible if it is conjugate to its inverse. We characterise the reversible elements in the group of diffeomorphisms of the real line, and in the subgroup of order preserving diffeomorphisms.

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2014-02-11 Anthony G. O'Farrell , Ian Short

We show that the embeddability relations for countable quandles and for countable fields of any given characteristic other than 2 are maximally complex in a strong sense: they are invariantly universal. This notion from the theory of Borel…

Logic · Mathematics 2020-07-21 Andrew D. Brooke-Taylor , Filippo Calderoni , Sheila K. Miller

The question of how irreversibility can emerge as a generic phenomena when the underlying mechanical theory is reversible has been a long-standing fundamental problem for both classical and quantum mechanics. We describe a mechanism for the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-09-20 Cozmin Ududec , Nathan Wiebe , Joseph Emerson

Cosmological models that invoke a multiverse - a collection of unobservable regions of space where conditions are very different from the region around us - are controversial, on the grounds that unobservable phenomena shouldn't play a…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2018-01-17 Sean M. Carroll

We prove for residually finite groups the following long standing conjecture: the number of twisted conjugacy classes of an automorphism of a finitely generated group is equal (if it is finite) to the number of finite dimensional…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2012-05-01 Alexander Fel'shtyn , Evgenij Troitsky

In this paper we work out a multiverse scenario whose physical characteristics enable us to advance the following the conjecture that whereas the physics of particles and fields is confined to live in the realm of the whole multiverse…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-18 Pedro F. Gonzalez-Diaz , Prado Martin-Moruno , Artyom V. Yurov

Recently, we pointed out the possible inconsistency in the very foundations of the Everett MWI (or a Multiverse) theory. Here, we place some emphasis on the very basic notions underlying our conclusion yet motivated by certain, recently…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-07-27 M. Dugic , J. Jeknic-Dugic

The idea of a multiverse -- an ensemble of universes or universe domains -- has received increasing attention in cosmology, both as the outcome of the originating process that generated our own universe, and as an explanation for why our…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 W. R. Stoeger , G. F. R. Ellis , U. Kirchner

The set of all subsets of any inverse semigroup forms an involution semiring under set-theoretical union and element-wise multiplication and inversion. We find structural conditions on a finite inverse semigroup guaranteeing that neither…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2024-03-13 Igor Dolinka , Sergey V. Gusev , Mikhail V. Volkov

We give criteria on an inverse system of finite groups that ensure the limit is just infinite or hereditarily just infinite. More significantly, these criteria are 'universal' in that all (hereditarily) just infinite profinite groups arise…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2017-08-29 Colin D. Reid

The issue of irreversibility in a universe with time-reversal-symmetric laws is a central problem in physics. % , and, in particular, to statistical mechanics, information theory and quantum thermodynamics. In this letter, we discuss for…

We investigate invertible matrices over finite additively idempotent semirings. The main result provides a criterion for the invertibility of such matrices. We also give a construction of the inverse matrix and a formula for the number of…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2012-08-13 Andreas Kendziorra , Stefan E. Schmidt , Jens Zumbrägel

We prove special cases of a general conjecture: If an invertible field theory admits a projectively topological boundary theory, then it has finite order in the abelian group of invertible field theories. One can substitute `gapped' for…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-08-28 Clay Córdova , Daniel S. Freed , Constantin Teleman

The boundary conditions to be imposed on the quantum state of the whole multiverse could be such that the universes would be created in entangled pairs. Then, inter-universal entanglement would provide us with a vacuum energy for each…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-12-17 S. J. Robles-Pérez , P. F. González-Díaz

We introduce the notion of a combinatorial inverse system in non-commutative variables. We present two important examples, some conjectures and results. These conjectures and results were suggested and supported by computer investigations.

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2010-10-05 J. -C. Aval , N. Bergeron , H. Li

We announce misere-play solutions to several previously-unsolved combinatorial games. The solutions are described in terms of misere quotients--commutative monoids that encode the additive structure of specific misere-play games. We also…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2008-06-30 Thane E. Plambeck , Aaron N. Siegel