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Understanding the laws that govern a phenomenon is the core of scientific progress. This is especially true when the goal is to model the interplay between different aspects in a causal fashion. Indeed, causal inference itself is…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Alessio Zanga , Elif Ozkirimli , Fabio Stella

A unifying framework for the study of causal relations is presented. The causal relations are regarded as subsets of M x M and the role of the corresponding antisymmetry conditions in the construction of the causal ladder is stressed. The…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-07-08 E. Minguzzi

Quantum gravity coupled to scalar massive matter fields is investigated within the framework of causal perturbation theory. One-loop calculations include matter loop graviton self-energy and matter self-energy and yield ultraviolet finite…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 Nicola Grillo

We study an order relation on the fibers of a continuous map and its application to the study of the structure of compact spaces of uncountable weight.

General Topology · Mathematics 2010-01-26 Antonio Avilés , Ondrej F. K. Kalenda

Computation models such as circuits describe sequences of computation steps that are carried out one after the other. In other words, algorithm design is traditionally subject to the restriction imposed by a fixed causal order. We address a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-07-04 Ämin Baumeler , Stefan Wolf

I describe the history of my attempts to arrive at a discrete substratum underlying the spacetime manifold, culminating in the hypothesis that the basic structure has the form of a partial-order (i.e. that it is a causal set).

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-09-25 Rafael D. Sorkin

Quantum mechanics allows the occurrence of events without having any definite causal order. Here, it is shown that the application of two different thermal channels in the causally inseparable order can enhance the potential to extract…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-09-23 Tamal Guha , Mir Alimuddin , Preeti Parashar

Causal inference is a central goal across many scientific disciplines. Over the past several decades, three major frameworks have emerged to formalize causal questions and guide their analysis: the potential outcomes framework, structural…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-02-12 Linbo Wang , Thomas Richardson , James Robins

We establish a deterministic technique to investigate transport moments of arbitrary order. The theory is applied to the analysis of different kinds of intermittent one-dimensional maps and the Lorentz gas with infinite horizon: the typical…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-10 Roberto Artuso , Giampaolo Cristadoro

We consider a category of all finite partial orderings with quotient maps as arrows and construct a Fra\"iss\'e sequence in this category. Then we use commonly known relations between partial orders and lattices to construct a sequence of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-01-26 Szymon Głcab , Michał Pawlikowski

The notions of causality adopted within the quantum information and spacetime physics communities are distinct. Although both notions play a role in physical experiments, their general interplay is little understood in theory. We develop a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-08 V. Vilasini , Renato Renner

Logical consistency with free local operations is compatible with non-trivial classical communications, where all parties can be both in each other's past and future-a phenomenon known as noncausality. Noncausal processes, such as the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-05 Anna Steffinlongo , Hippolyte Dourdent

We propose a structure called a causal site to use as a setting for quantum geometry, replacing the underlying point set. The structure has an interesting categorical form, and a natural "tangent 2-bundle," analogous to the tangent bundle…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 J. Daniel Christensen , Louis Crane

One way to study the physical plausibility of closed timelike curves (CTCs) is to examine their computational power. This has been done for Deutschian CTCs (D-CTCs) and post-selection CTCs (P-CTCs), with the result that they allow for the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-07 Mateus Araújo , Philippe Allard Guérin , Ämin Baumeler

The causal structure of a unitary transformation is the set of relations of possible influence between any input subsystem and any output subsystem. We study whether such causal structure can be understood in terms of compositional…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-07-28 Robin Lorenz , Jonathan Barrett

A scheme for an algebraic quantization of the causal sets of Sorkin et al. is presented. The suggested scenario is along the lines of a similar algebraization and quantum interpretation of finitary topological spaces due to Zapatrin and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Ioannis Raptis

We introduce the notion of dynamical metric order of a continuous map on a compact metric space, study its basic properties, and compute it for several classes of maps. This concept which is a counterpart of the metric mean dimension with…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2026-04-14 Maria Carvalho , Fagner B. Rodrigues

We present a finite-order system of recurrence relations for a permanent of circulant matrices containing a band of k any-value diagonals on top of a uniform matrix (for k = 1, 2, and 3) as well as the method for deriving such recurrence…

A Random Graph is a random object which take its values in the space of graphs. We take advantage of the expressibility of graphs in order to model the uncertainty about the existence of causal relationships within a given set of variables.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Mauricio Gonzalez-Soto , Ivan R. Feliciano-Avelino , L. Enrique Sucar , Hugo J. Escalante Balderas

The release of causal structure of physical events from a well-defined order to an indefinite one stimulates remarkable enhancements in various quantum information tasks. Some of these advantages, however, are questioned for the ambiguous…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-05 Hao Tang , Yu Guo , Xiao-Min Hu , Yun-Feng Huang , Bi-Heng Liu , Chuan-Feng Li , Guang-Can Guo