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We announce two breakthrough results concerning important questions in the Theory of Computational Complexity. In this expository paper, a systematic and comprehensive geometric characterization of the Subset Sum Problem is presented. We…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Srinivas Balaji Bollepalli

The fundamental laws of physics are time-symmetric, but our macroscopic experience contradicts this. The time reversibility paradox is partly a consequence of the unpredictability of Newton's equations of motion. We measure the dependence…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2022-09-09 Simon Portegies Zwart , Tjarda Boekholt

We study the interplay between the global causal and geometric structures of a spacetime $(M,g)$ and the features of a given smooth $\mathbb{R}$-action $\rho$ on $M$ whose orbits are all causal curves, building on classic results about Lie…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-05-11 Ivan P. Costa e Silva , José Luis Flores

While the contents of Euclid's Elements are well-known these days, some characters of the original text have been overlooked due to interpretation by modern mathematical languages. The lens of modern mathematics once anachronistically…

History and Overview · Mathematics 2025-06-16 Byungchang So

This paper provides some counterexamples to Cantor's contributions to the foundations of Set Theory. The first counterexample forces Cantor's Diagonal Method (DM) to yield one of the numbers in the target list. To study this anomaly, and…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2014-04-28 Enrique Coiras

In Physics and in Mathematics $\mathbb{Z}_2^n$-gradings, $n \geq 2$, do appear quite frequently. The corresponding sign rules are determined by the `scalar product' of the involved $\mathbb{Z}_2^n$-degrees. The present paper is the first of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-11-11 Tiffany Covolo , Janusz Grabowski , Norbert Poncin

The issue of the equivalence between Jordan and Einstein conformal frames in scalar-tensor gravity is revisited, with emphasis on implementing running units in the latter. The lack of affine parametrization for timelike worldlines and the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Valerio Faraoni , Shahn Nadeau

The inconsistencies involved in the foundation of set theory were invariably caused by infinity and self-reference; and only with the opportune axiomatic restrictions could them be obviated. Throughout history, both concepts have proved to…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2012-01-25 Antonio Leon

The principle of relativity, as originally expressed by Galileo, points out that the area of competence of the principle itself is that of isolated systems as well as inertial reference frames. The principle does not claim that it is always…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-09-18 Bruno Cocciaro

The clock paradox is analyzed for the case when the onward and return trips cover the same <<distance>> (as observed by the traveling twin) but at unequal velocities. In this case the stationary twin observes the distances covered by her…

General Physics · Physics 2008-09-26 Chandru Iyer , G. M. Prabhu

It was shown by Visser that Peano Arithmetic has the property that any two bi-interpretable extensions of it (in the same language) are equivalent. Enayat proposed to refer to this property of a theory as tightness and to carry out a more…

Logic · Mathematics 2025-12-11 Piotr Gruza , Leszek Aleksander Kołodziejczyk , Mateusz Łełyk

Einstein's theory of special relativity(SR) and the principle of causality imply that the speed of any moving object can not exceed that of light in a vacuum($c$).However,there were many attempts in literature discussing the particle moving…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Guang-jiong Ni

Two aspects of the physical side of the Church-Turing thesis are discussed. The first issue is a variant of the Eleatic argument against motion, dealing with Zeno squeezed time cycles of computers. The second argument reviews the issue of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Karl Svozil

Mathematicians and philosophers have appealed to categoricity arguments in a surprisingly varied range of contexts. One familiar example calls on second-order categoricity in an attempt to show that the Continuum Hypothesis, despite its…

Logic · Mathematics 2023-03-14 Penelope Maddy , Jouko Väänänen

The classical model of spinning particle is analyzed in details in two versions - with single spinor and two spinors put on the trajectory. Equations of motion of the first version are easily solvable. The system with two spinors becomes…

Classical Physics · Physics 2019-09-17 Cezary J. Walczyk , Zbigniew Hasiewicz

Although Bolzano's concept of the continuum has gradually evolved, the basis remained the same: the continuum as an infinite class of points arranged in such a way that the so-called \emph{Bolzano completeness} holds. Bolzano realized over…

History and Overview · Mathematics 2025-08-12 Kateřina Trlifajová

This essay offers a meta-level analysis in the sociology and history of physics in the context of the so-called "Arrow of Time Problem" or "Two Times Problem," which asserts that the empirically observed directionality of time is in…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2024-06-11 R. E. Kastner

Quantum Zeno Dynamics is the phenomenon that the observation or strong driving of a quantum system can freeze its dynamics to a subspace, effectively truncating the Hilbert space of the system. It represents the quantum version of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-03-30 Matthias M. Müller , Stefano Gherardini , Filippo Caruso

The Pythagorean Theorem has been proved in hundreds of ways, yet it inspires fresh insights through geometry and trigonometry. In this paper, we offer a new proof based on three circles that circumscribe the sides of a right triangle.…

History and Overview · Mathematics 2025-07-08 Luca Nathanael Chang

Classical, Quantum, Relativistic and Statistical: the four branches of mechanics. However, the Quattro Donna of Physics disagree even about the entities that are supposed to be fundamental, such as space, matter and time. In order to search…

General Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Roberto Assumpcao
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