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In this paper, we propose a novel Quantum Spacetime Theory (QST) that reinterprets spacetime as an emergent structure, challenging the traditional block universe paradigm and aligning with research into emergent spacetime. Using a sphere…

General Physics · Physics 2025-05-06 Craig Philpot

General Relativity (GR), with or without matter fields, admits a natural extension to a scale invariant theory that requires a dilaton. Here we show that the recently formulated massive GR, minimally coupled to matter, possesses a new…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-04-03 Guido D'Amico , Gregory Gabadadze , Lam Hui , David Pirtskhalava

The semi-classical approach to the quantum geometrodynamical model is used for the description of the properties of the universe on extremely small spacetime scales. Quantum theory for a homogeneous, isotropic and closed universe is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-21 V. E. Kuzmichev , V. V. Kuzmichev

We present a variation of quasi-isometry to approach the problem of defining a geometric notion equivalent to commensurability. In short, this variation can be summarized as "quasi-isometry with uniform parameters for a large enough family…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2010-06-01 Andreas Lochmann

We develop the foundations of the theory of quasi-visual approximations of bounded metric spaces. Roughly speaking, these are sequences of covers of a given space for which the diameters of the sets in the covers shrink to zero and for…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2026-01-22 Mario Bonk , Mikhail Hlushchanka , Daniel Meyer

Working within the quasi-metric framework (QMF), it is examined if the gravitational field exterior to an isolated, spherically symmetric body is necessarily metrically static, or equivalently, whether or not Birkhoff's theorem holds for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-04-02 Dag Østvang

General Relativity assumes that spacetime is fully described by the metric alone. An alternative is the so called Palatini formalism where the metric and the connections are taken as independent quantities. The metric-affine theory of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Thomas P. Sotiriou , Stefano Liberati

We consider a generalization of Riemannian geometry that naturally arises in the framework of control theory. Let $X$ and $Y$ be two smooth vector fields on a two-dimensional manifold $M$. If $X$ and $Y$ are everywhere linearly independent,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Andrei A. Agrachev , Ugo Boscain , Mario Sigalotti

Linear connections satisfying the Einstein metricity condition are important in the study of generalized Riemannian manifolds $(M,G=g+F)$, where the symmetric part $g$ of $G$ is a non-degenerate $(0,2)$-tensor, and $F$ is the skew-symmetric…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-08-12 Milan Zlatanović , Vladimir Rovenski

Quasi-topological gravity is a new gravitational theory including curvature-cubed interactions and for which exact black hole solutions were constructed. In a holographic framework, classical quasi-topological gravity can be thought to be…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-03-14 Robert C. Myers , Miguel F. Paulos , Aninda Sinha

We extend the class of recently formulated scalar-nonmetricity theories by coupling a five-parameter nonmetricity scalar to a scalar field and considering a mixed kinetic term between the metric and the scalar field. The symmetric…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-10-23 Mihkel Rünkla , Ott Vilson

I describe a project to open a new territory of quantum field theory where the fields live not on a space-time manifold but on certain complete metric spaces of (n-1)-dimensional objects (defects) in a 2n-dimensional space-time M. These…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-11-15 Daniel Friedan

We study mappings on sub-Riemannian manifolds which are quasi-regular with respect to the Carnot-Caratheodory distances and discuss several related notions. On H-type Carnot groups, quasiregular mappings have been introduced earlier using…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2016-06-21 Katrin Fassler , Anton Lukyanenko , Kirsi Peltonen

Gravity can be formulated as a gauge theory by combining symmetry principles and geometrical methods in a consistent mathematical framework. The gauge approach to gravity leads directly to non-Euclidean, post-Riemannian spacetime…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-12-14 Francisco Cabral , Francisco S. N. Lobo , Diego Rubiera-Garcia

A common feature of all Quantum Gravity (QG) phenomenology approaches is to consider a modification of the mass shell condition of the relativistic particle to take into account quantum gravitational effects. The framework for such…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Florian Girelli , Stefano Liberati , Lorenzo Sindoni

The laws of thermodynamics in the expanding universe are formulated within the quasi-metric framework. Since the quasi-metric cosmic expansion does not directly influence momenta of material particles, so that the expansion directly cools…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-01-14 Dag Østvang

The definition of quasi-local mass for a bounded space-like region in space-time is essential in several major unsettled problems in general relativity. The quasi-local mass is expected to be a type of flux integral on the boundary…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-11-13 Mu-Tao Wang , Shing-Tung Yau

We present a review of the Semi-Symmetric Metric Gravity (SSMG) theory, representing a geometric extension of standard general relativity, based on a connection introduced by Friedmann and Schouten in 1924. The semi-symmetric connection is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-11-06 Himanshu Chaudhary , Lehel Csillag , Tiberiu Harko

In this paper we define a family of theories, quasi-theories, motivated by quasi-elliptic cohomology. They can be defined from constant loop spaces. With them, the constructions on certain theories can be made in a neat way, such as those…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2018-09-19 Zhen Huan

In this thesis, I examine in detail the properties of rigid quasilocal frames (RQF), which have been proposed as a geometrically natural way to define spatially extended reference frames in general relativity. I also explore their…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-02-07 Paul L. McGrath