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We demonstrate the breakdown of several fundamentals of Lorentzian causality theory in low regularity. Most notably, chronological futures (defined naturally using locally Lipschitz curves) may be non-open, and may differ from the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-06-15 James D. E. Grant , Michael Kunzinger , Clemens Sämann , Roland Steinbauer

We prove that all functions obeying the Kramers-Kronig relations can be approximated as superpositions of Lorentzian functions, to any precision. As a result, the typical text-book analysis of dielectric dispersion response functions in…

Optics · Physics 2013-10-16 Christopher A. Dirdal , Johannes Skaar

Recently ({\em Class. Quant. Grav.} {\bf 20} 625-664) the concept of {\em causal mapping} between spacetimes --essentially equivalent in this context to the {\em chronological map} one in abstract chronological spaces--, and the related…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2021-05-25 Alfonso García-Parrado , Miguel Sánchez

This article is concerned with causal structures, which are defined as a field of tangentially non-degenerate projective hypersurfaces in the projectivized tangent bundle of a manifold. The local equivalence problem of causal structures on…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-08-07 Omid Makhmali

We describe up to finite coverings causal flat affine complete Lorentzian manifolds such that the past and the future of any point are closed near this point. We say that these manifolds are strictly causal. In particular, we prove that…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 V. M. Gichev , O. S. Morozov

We present a short review of geometric and algebraic approach to causal cones and describe cone preserving transformations and their relationship with causal structure related to special and general theory of relativity. We describe Lie…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 Sujatha Janardhan , R. V. Saraykar

I present aspects of causal set theory (a research programme in quantum gravity) as being en route to achieving a reduction of Lorentzian geometry to causal sets. I take reduction in philosophers' sense; and I argue that the prospects are…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2024-01-30 Jeremy Butterfield

In this dissertation we develop a new formal graphical framework for causal reasoning. Starting with a review of monoidal categories and their associated graphical languages, we then revisit probability theory from a categorical perspective…

Probability · Mathematics 2013-01-29 Brendan Fong

In this paper, the relationship between probabilistic graphical models, in particular Bayesian networks, and causal diagrams, also called structural causal models, is studied. Structural causal models are deterministic models, based on…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Peter J. F. Lucas , Eleonora Zullo , Fabio Stella

In this article we present a review of a geometric and algebraic approach to causal cones and describe cone preserving transformations and their relationship with the causal structure related to special and general relativity. We describe…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-10 R V Saraykar , Sujatha Janardhan

Some results related to the causality of compact Lorentzian manifolds are proven: (1) any compact Lorentzian manifold which admits a timelike conformal vector field is totally vicious, and (2) a compact Lorentzian manifold covered regularly…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-11-23 Miguel Sánchez

We consider examples of the $\mathbb H$-type groups with the natural horizontal distribution generated by the commutation relations of the group. In the contrast with the previous studies we furnish the horizontal distribution with the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2008-09-26 Anna Korolko , Irina Markina

Some links between Lorentz and Finsler geometries have been developed in the last years, with applications even to the Riemannian case. Our purpose is to give a brief description of them, which may serve as an introduction to recent…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-10-25 Miguel Ángel Javaloyes , Enrique Pendás-Recondo , Miguel Sánchez

We investigate the causal relations in the space of states of almost commutative Lorentzian geometries. We fully describe the causal structure of a simple model based on the algebra $\mathcal{S}(\mathbb{R}^{1,1}) \otimes M_2(\mathbb{C})$,…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-01-29 Nicolas Franco , Michał Eckstein

Causal theory is now widely developed with many applications to medicine and public health. However within the discipline of reliability, although causation is a key concept in this field, there has been much less theoretical attention. In…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-02-17 Xuewen Yu , Jim Q. Smith , Linda Nichols

Several classes of directed acyclic graphs have been investigated in the last two decades, in the context of the Causal Set Program, in search for good discrete models of spacetime. We introduce some statistical indicators that can be used…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-07-04 Tommaso Bolognesi , Alexander Lamb

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

This paper proposes a causal inference relation and causal programming as general frameworks for causal inference with structural causal models. A tuple, $\langle M, I, Q, F \rangle$, is an instance of the relation if a formula, $F$,…

Methodology · Statistics 2018-05-08 Joshua Brulé

We consider the incorporation of causal knowledge about the presence or absence of (possibly indirect) causal relations into a causal model. Such causal relations correspond to directed paths in a causal model. This type of knowledge…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2012-07-03 Giorgos Borboudakis , Ioannis Tsamardinos

Recent work shows that causal facts can be effectively extracted from LLMs through prompting, facilitating the creation of causal graphs for causal inference tasks. However, it is unclear if this success is limited to explicitly-mentioned…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-19 Nitish Joshi , Abulhair Saparov , Yixin Wang , He He