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A description of physical reality in which wholeness is the foundation is discussed along with the motivation for such an attempt. As a possible mathematical framework within which a physical theory based on wholeness may be expressed,…

General Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 Barbara Piechocinska

It is shown how the theory of the fields can be constructed in a consistent way in quantized spaces. All constructions are connected with unitary irreducible representations of real forms of six dimensional rotation algebras O(1,5), O(2,4),…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 A. N. Leznov

In recent publications in physics and mathematics, concerns have been raised about the use of real numbers to describe quantities in physics, and in particular about the usual assumption that physical quantities are infinitely precise. In…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2021-08-13 Tein van der Lugt

We revisit the standard axioms of domain theory with emphasis on their relation to the concept of partiality, explain how this idea arises naturally in probability theory and quantum mechanics, and then search for a mathematical setting…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Bob Coecke , Keye Martin

We consider an arbitrary representation of the additive group over a field of characteristic zero and give an explicit description of a finite separating set in the corresponding ring of invariants.

Commutative Algebra · Mathematics 2013-02-05 Emilie Dufresne , Jonathan Elmer , Müfit Sezer

The paper discusses the fundamental characteristics distinguishing the natural and social systems from each other. It considers in detail the basic approaches, prospects, and possibilities of constructing mathematical description for social…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-05-13 Ihor Lubashevsky , Natalia Plawinska

Wigner's "unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics" in physics can be understood as a reflection of a deep and unexpected unity between the fundamental structures of mathematics and of physics. Some of the history of evidence for this is…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 Peter Woit

We introduce and study a natural class of fields in which certain first-order definable sets are existentially definable, and characterise this class by a number of equivalent conditions. We show that global fields belong to this class, and…

Logic · Mathematics 2023-06-22 Philip Dittmann , Dion Leijnse

The object of this contribution is twofold. On one hand, it rises some general questions concerning the definition of the electromagnetic field and its intrinsic properties, and it proposes concepts and ways to answer them. On the other…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Bartolome Coll

We define general notions of coordinate geometries over fields and ordered fields, and consider coordinate geometries that are given by finitely many relations that are definable over those fields. We show that the automorphism group of…

Logic · Mathematics 2025-07-15 Judit Madarász , Mike Stannett , Gergely Székely

We discuss the physical meaning and the geometric interpretation of causality implementation in classical field theories. Causality is normally implemented through kinematical constraints on fields but we show that in a zero-distance limit…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Manoelito M. de Souza

The aim of this essay is to propose a conception of mathematics that is fully consonant with naturalism. By that I mean the hypothesis that everything that exists is part of the natural world, which makes up a unitary whole.

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 Lee Smolin

Since ancient times, mathematics has proven unreasonably effective in its description of physical phenomena. As humankind enters a period of advancement where the completion of the much coveted theory of quantum gravity is at hand, there is…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2015-02-18 Michael Rios

This review gives an overview of effective field theory (EFT) as applied at finite density, with a focus on nuclear many-body systems. Uniform systems with short-range interactions illustrate the ingredients and virtues of many-body EFT and…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-19 R. J. Furnstahl , G. Rupak , T. Schaefer

We give a mathematical definition of quantum field theory on a manifold, and definition of quantization of a classical field theory given by a variational principle.

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-21 A. V. Stoyanovsky

The question of what should be meant by a measurement is tackled from a mathematical perspective whose physical interpretation is that a measurement is a fundamental process via which a finite amount of classical information is produced.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-01-10 Pedro Resende

The paper advances the hypothesis that the multi-field is a determinable, that is, a physical object characterized by indeterminate values with respect to some properties. The multi-field is a realist interpretation of the wave function in…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2025-08-08 Davide Romano

A definition of a {\it Realistic} Physics Theory is proposed based on the idea that, at all time, the set of physical properties possessed (at that time) by a system should unequivocally determine the probabilities of outcomes of all…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-07-23 Nicolas Gisin

The hypothesis concerning the off-site continuum existence is investigated from the point of view of the mathematical theory of sets. The principles and methods of the mathematical description of the physical objects from different off-site…

General Physics · Physics 2007-06-04 A. V. Novikov-Borodin

The idea of monotonicity (or positive-definiteness in the linear case) is shown to be the central theme of the solution theories associated with problems of mathematical physics. A "grand unified" setting is surveyed covering a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-06-19 Rainer Picard , Sascha Trostorff , Marcus Waurick