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In spacetime physics, we frequently need to consider a set of all spaces (`universes') as a whole. In particular, the concept of `closeness' between spaces is essential. However, there has been no established mathematical theory so far…

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Matrix configurations define noncommutative spaces endowed with extra structure including a generalized Laplace operator, and hence a metric structure. Made dynamical via matrix models, they describe rich physical systems including…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-03-15 Laura O. Felder , Harold C. Steinacker

In this paper geometry of Gromov-Hausdorff distance on the class of all metric spaces considered up to an isometry is investigated. For this class continuous curves and their lengths are defined, and it is shown that the Gromov-Hausdorff…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2020-09-02 S. I. Borzov , A. O. Ivanov , A. A. Tuzhilin

Magnitude is a real-valued invariant of metric spaces which, in the finite setting, can be understood as recording the 'effective number of points' in a space as the scale of the metric varies. Motivated by applications in topological data…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2025-01-28 Hirokazu Katsumasa , Emily Roff , Masahiko Yoshinaga

Reparametrization invariant Sobolev metrics on spaces of regular curves have been shown to be of importance in the field of mathematical shape analysis. For practical applications, one usually discretizes the space of smooth curves and…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-03-26 Jonathan Cerqueira , Emmanuel Hartman , Eric Klassen , Martin Bauer

A labeled metric space is intuitively speaking a metric space together with a special set of points to be understood as the geometric boundary of the space. We study basic properties of a recently introduced labeled Gromov-Hausdorff…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2022-10-04 Reijo Jaakkola , Antti Kykkänen

We determine bounds on the curvature of local patches of spacetime from the requirement of intact long-range chiral symmetry. The bounds arise from a scale-dependent analysis of gravitational catalysis and its influence on the effective…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-05-02 Holger Gies , Riccardo Martini

Many geometric optimization problems can be reduced to finding points in space (centers) minimizing an objective function which continuously depends on the distances from the centers to given input points. Examples are $k$-Means, Geometric…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2021-08-26 Vladimir Shenmaier

We review the question of whether the fundamental laws of nature limit our ability to probe arbitrarily short distances. First, we examine what insights can be gained from thought experiments for probes of shortest distances, and summarize…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-04 Sabine Hossenfelder

Stable subgroups and the Morse boundary are two systematic approaches to collect and study the hyperbolic aspects of finitely generated groups. In this paper we unify and generalize these strategies by viewing any geodesic metric space as a…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2017-06-14 Matthew Cordes , David Hume

We construct the differential geometry of smooth manifolds equipped with an algebraic curvature map acting as an area measure. Area metric geometry provides a spacetime structure suitable for the discussion of gauge theories and strings,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 Frederic P. Schuller , Mattias N. R. Wohlfarth

Recently there have been discussions about which complex metrics should be allowable in quantum gravity. These discussions assumed that the matter fields were real valued. We make the observation that for compactified solutions it makes…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-02-22 Jean-Luc Lehners

In this work, we introduce the notion of a two-Krein space and show that, starting from any classical Krein space, it is possible to construct spaces endowed with an indefinite two-inner product (admitting both positive and negative…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2025-04-14 Osmin Ferrer , Kandy Ferrer , Jaffeth Cure

We revisit the Extended Uncertainty Principle (EUP) from an operational viewpoint, replacing wavefunction-based widths with apparatus-defined position constraints such as a finite slit of width $\Delta x$ or a geodesic ball of radius $R$.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-03 Thomas Schürmann

We review recent theoretical progress and observational constraints on multifractional spacetimes, geometries that change with the probed scale. On the theoretical side, the basic structure of the Standard Model and of the gravitational…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-10-31 Gianluca Calcagni

We study the quantization of geometry in the presence of a cosmological constant, using a discretiza- tion with constant-curvature simplices. Phase space turns out to be compact and the Hilbert space finite dimensional for each link. Not…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-04-22 Carlo Rovelli , Francesca Vidotto

Following the general principles of noncommutative geometry, it is possible to define a metric on the space of pure states of the noncommutative algebra generated by the coordinates. This metric generalizes the usual Riemannian one. We…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-26 B. Iochum , T. Krajewski , P. Martinetti

We introduce and explore a new concept of evasive subspace with respect to a collection of subspaces sharing a common dimension, most notably partial spreads. We show that this concept generalises known notions of subspace scatteredness and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-10-17 Anina Gruica , Alberto Ravagnani , John Sheekey , Ferdinando Zullo

We study non-compact scaling limits of uniform random planar quadrangulations with a boundary when their size tends to infinity. Depending on the asymptotic behavior of the boundary size and the choice of the scaling factor, we observe…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-08-04 Erich Baur , Grégory Miermont , Gourab Ray

This paper introduces a novel generalization of the classical concept of $S$-metric spaces, referred to as composed $S$-metric spaces. By incorporating a composed function, we impose more general conditions on the triangle inequality,…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2025-09-16 Nizar Souayah