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This work presents an explicit description of the Fisher-Rao Riemannian metric on the Hilbert manifold of equivalent centered Gaussian measures on an infinite-dimensional Hilbert space. We show that the corresponding quantities from the…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-10-17 Minh Ha Quang

We analyse the axioms of Euclidean geometry according to standard object-oriented software development methodology. We find a perfect match: the main undefined concepts of the axioms translate to object classes. The result is a suite of C++…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2009-09-29 M. H. van Emden , B. Moa

We construct a continuum of non-homeomorphic compact subspaces of the real line R without singleton components. Thus from the purely topological point of view the real line contains not only more closed sets than open sets but also more…

General Topology · Mathematics 2020-04-24 Gerald Kuba

Exact results are derived, specifically the perihelion shift and the Kepler orbit, for a bound test particle in the Schwarzschild metric with cosmological constant $\Lambda=0$. A series expansion, of $\Delta\phi = 2(2(1-2M/p(3-e))^{-1/2}…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-07-28 Ka Hall

It is shown that loop divergences emerging in the Green functions in quantum field theory originate from correspondence of the Green functions to {\em unmeasurable} (and hence unphysical) quantities. This is because no physical quantity can…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-05-08 M. V. Altaisky

We prove that if two finitely generated groups act on a metrically complete 2-dimensional Euclidean building, then the distance between their fixed-point sets is realised. Our proof uses the geometry of Euclidean buildings, which we view as…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2022-10-25 Harris Leung , Jeroen Schillewaert , Anne Thomas

In this paper, we introduce an asymmetric metric on the space of marked Euclidean triangles, and we prove several properties of this metric, including two equivalent definitions of this metric, one of them comparing ratios of functions of…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-04-25 Ismail Saglam , Ken'Ichi Ohshika , Athanase Papadopoulos

We address the issue of angular measure, which is a contested issue for the International System of Units (SI). We provide a mathematically rigorous and axiomatic presentation of angular measure that leads to the traditional way of…

History and Overview · Mathematics 2021-11-16 Martin Grötschel , Harald Hanche-Olsen , Helge Holden , Michael P. Krystek

Adrian Kent has recently presented a critique [arXiv:2307.06191] of our paper [Nat. Comms. 10, 1361 (2019)] in which he claims to refute our main result: the measurement postulates of quantum mechanics can be derived from the rest of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-15 Lluís Masanes , Thomas D. Galley , Markus P. Müller

A complete set of mutually unbiased bases for a Hilbert space of dimension N is analogous in some respects to a certain finite geometric structure, namely, an affine plane. Another kind of quantum measurement, known as a symmetric…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 William K. Wootters

Conformal symmetry is taken as an attribute of theories of massless fields in manifolds with specific dimensionalities. This paper shows that this is not an absolute truth; it is a consequence of the mathematical representation used for the…

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

The main result of this note, Theorem 2, is the following: a Borel measure on the space of infinite Hermitian matrices, that is invariant under the action of the infinite unitary group and that admits well-defined projections onto the…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2011-08-16 Alexander I. Bufetov

The intuition that the precision of observables is constrained by thermodynamic costs has recently been formalized through thermodynamic and kinetic uncertainty relations. While such trade-offs have been extensively studied in Markovian…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-13 Tan Van Vu , Ryotaro Honma , Keiji Saito

We show that the Freiman--Ruzsa theorem, characterising finite sets with bounded doubling, leads to an alternative proof of a characterisation of Meyer sets, that is, relatively dense subsets of Euclidean spaces whose difference sets are…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2023-12-20 Jakub Konieczny

We study the problem of representing all distances between $n$ points in $\mathbb R^d$, with arbitrarily small distortion, using as few bits as possible. We give asymptotically tight bounds for this problem, for Euclidean metrics, for…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2021-10-08 Piotr Indyk , Tal Wagner

We prove that there is, in every direction in Euclidean space, a line that misses every computably random point. We also prove that there exist, in every direction in Euclidean space, arbitrarily long line segments missing every double…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2014-07-25 Jack H. Lutz , Neil Lutz

The famous Banach Contraction Principle holds in complete metric spaces, but completeness is not a necessary condition -- there are incomplete metric spaces on which every contraction has a fixed point. The aim of this paper is to present…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2019-10-08 S. Cobzaş

A new method of metric space investigation, based on classification of its finite subspaces, is suggested. It admits to derive information on metric space properties which is encoded in metric. The method describes geometry in terms of only…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Yuri A. Rylov

The inevitable noise in real measurements motivates the problem to continuously quantify the similarity between rigid objects such as periodic time series and proteins given by ordered points and considered up to isometry maintaining…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Vitaliy Kurlin

Standard cosmological models rely on an approximate treatment of gravity, utilizing solutions of the linearized Einstein equations as well as physical approximations. In an era of precision cosmology, we should ask: are these approximate…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-06 John T. Giblin , James B. Mertens , Glenn D. Starkman , Chi Tian