English
Related papers

Related papers: The Space-Time Connectivity Theorem for Normal Cur…

200 papers

The classical theory of strain in material continua is reviewed and generalized to space-time. Strain is attributed to "external" (matter/energy fields) and intrinsic sources fixing the global symmetry of the universe (defects in the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-01-21 Angelo Tartaglia , Ninfa Radicella

We show that the usual Born-Oppenheimer type of approximation used in quantum gravity, in which a semiclassical time parameter emerges from a weak-coupling expansion of the Wheeler-DeWitt constraint, leads to a unitary theory at least up to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-05-20 Leonardo Chataignier

The question about the appearance of time in the semiclassical limit of quantum gravity continues to be discussed in the literature. It is believed that a temporal Schrodinger equation for matter fields on the background of a classical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-24 R. I. Ayala Oña , M. B. Kalmykov , D. P. Kislyakova , T. P. Shestakova

Popular wisdom amongst theoretical physicists says that the continuum structure of spacetime is probably not elementary, but rather emergent. While many arguments to support that view arise from speculative ideas, the argument can also be…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-01-10 Olivier Minazzoli

Fluctuation theorems establish deep relations between observables away from thermal equilibrium. Until recently, the research on fluctuation theorems was focused on time-reversal-invariant systems. In this review we address some newly…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-18 Chenjie Wang , D. E. Feldman

For non-equilibrium systems of interacting particles and for interacting diffusions in d dimensions, a novel fluctuation relation is derived. The theorem establishes a quantitative relation between the probabilities of observing two current…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-12-07 Carlos Pérez-Espigares , Frank Redig , Cristian Giardinà

Every time function on spacetime gives a (continuous) total preordering of the spacetime events which respects the notion of causal precedence. The problem of the existence of a (semi-)time function on spacetime and the problem of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-06-23 E. Minguzzi

Understanding the emergence of a tangible 4-dimensional space-time from a quantum theory of gravity promises to be a tremendously difficult task. This article makes the case that this task may not have to be carried. Space-time as we know…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2018-11-14 Antoine Tilloy

We propose a time-symmetric counterpart of the current in stochastic thermodynamics named time-symmetric current. This quantity is defined with empirical measures and thus is symmetric under time reversal, while its ensemble average…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-04-26 Naoto Shiraishi

We develop a very general perturbative theory of time-dependent transport in a weak tunneling junction which is independent of experimental details and on many-body correlated states in the coupled conductors. These can be similar or…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-01-24 Ines Safi

A general formal definition of a theory of space and time compatible with the inertia principle is given. The formal definition of reference frame and inertial equivalence between reference frames are used to construct the class of inertial…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 E. Caccese , V. A. Cimmelli , A. R. Pace

This paper makes the simple observation that a fundamental length, or cutoff, in the context of Friedmann-Lema\^itre-Robertson-Walker (FRW) cosmology implies very different things than for a static universe. It is argued that it is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-01-13 Marvin Weinstein

String theory is canonically accompanied with a space-time interpretation which determines S-matrix-like observables, and connects to the standard physics at low energies in the guise of local effective field theory. Recently, we have…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-03-02 Laurent Freidel , Robert G. Leigh , Djordje Minic

In this paper, I present a mapping between representation of some quantum phenomena in one dimension and behavior of a classical time-dependent harmonic oscillator. For the first time, it is demonstrated that quantum tunneling can be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-05-24 Alexander Davydov

We prove a transient fluctuation theorem for the currents for continuous-time Markov jump processes with stationary rates, generalizing an asymptotic result by Andrieux and Gaspard [J. Stat. Phys. 127, 107 (2007)] to finite times. The…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-10-22 Matteo Polettini , Massimiliano Esposito

We comment on a recent paper by Yuen-Zhou et al. [ Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 2009, 11, 4509 ] which extends some of the results of Time-Dependent Current Density Functional Theory applied to open quantum systems. Besides pointing out some…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-23 Roberto D'Agosta , Massimiliano Di Ventra

In this work, we use the concept of quaternion time and demonstrate that it can be applied for description of four-dimensional space-time intervals. We demonstrate that the quaternion time interval together with the finite speed of light…

General Physics · Physics 2021-06-14 Viktor Ariel

Conserved currents associated with the time translation and axial symmetries of the Kerr spacetime and with scaling symmetry are constructed for the Teukolsky Master Equation (TME). Three partly different approaches are taken, of which the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-09-06 Gabor Zsolt Toth

A generalised equivalence principle is put forward according to which space-time symmetries and internal quantum symmetries are indistinguishable before symmetry breaking. Based on this principle, a higher-dimensional extension of Minkowski…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Dorje C. Brody , Lane P. Hughston

This paper reviews some of the principal uses, over almost seven decades, of correlations, in both Eulerian and Lagrangian frames of reference, of properties of turbulent flows at variable spatial locations and variable time instants.…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-08-07 James M. Wallace