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What Is the Validity Domain of Einstein’s Equations? Distributional Solutions over Singularities and Topological Links in Geometrodynamics
The existence of singularities alerts that one of the highest priorities of a centennial perspective on general relativity should be a careful re-thinking of the validity domain of Einstein’s field equations. We address the problem of constructing distinguishable extensions of the smooth spacetime manifold model, which can incorporate singularities, while retaining the form of the field equations. The sheaf-theoretic formulation of this problem is tantamount to extending the algebra sheaf of smooth functions to a distribution-like algebra sheaf in which the former may be embedded, satisfying the pertinent cohomological conditions required for the coordinatization of all of the tensorial physical quantities, such that the form of the field equations is preserved. We present in detail the construction of these distribution-like algebra sheaves in terms of residue classes of sequences of smooth functions modulo the information of singular loci encoded in suitable ideals. Finally, we consider the application of these distribution-like solution sheaves in geometrodynamics by modeling topologically-circular boundaries of singular loci in three-dimensional space in terms of topological links. It turns out that the Borromean link represents higher order wormhole solutions
Axiomatizing complex algebras by games
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Complex Algebras of Arithmetic
An 'arithmetic circuit' is a labeled, acyclic directed graph specifying a
sequence of arithmetic and logical operations to be performed on sets of
natural numbers. Arithmetic circuits can also be viewed as the elements of the
smallest subalgebra of the complex algebra of the semiring of natural numbers.
In the present paper, we investigate the algebraic structure of complex
algebras of natural numbers, and make some observations regarding the
complexity of various theories of such algebras
The algebraic structure of geometric flows in two dimensions
There is a common description of different intrinsic geometric flows in two
dimensions using Toda field equations associated to continual Lie algebras that
incorporate the deformation variable t into their system. The Ricci flow admits
zero curvature formulation in terms of an infinite dimensional algebra with
Cartan operator d/dt. Likewise, the Calabi flow arises as Toda field equation
associated to a supercontinual algebra with odd Cartan operator d/d \theta -
\theta d/dt. Thus, taking the square root of the Cartan operator allows to
connect the two distinct classes of geometric deformations of second and fourth
order, respectively. The algebra is also used to construct formal solutions of
the Calabi flow in terms of free fields by Backlund transformations, as for the
Ricci flow. Some applications of the present framework to the general class of
Robinson-Trautman metrics that describe spherical gravitational radiation in
vacuum in four space-time dimensions are also discussed. Further iteration of
the algorithm allows to construct an infinite hierarchy of higher order
geometric flows, which are integrable in two dimensions and they admit
immediate generalization to Kahler manifolds in all dimensions. These flows
provide examples of more general deformations introduced by Calabi that
preserve the Kahler class and minimize the quadratic curvature functional for
extremal metrics.Comment: 54 page
Modal Logics that Bound the Circumference of Transitive Frames
For each natural number we study the modal logic determined by the class
of transitive Kripke frames in which there are no cycles of length greater than
and no strictly ascending chains. The case is the G\"odel-L\"ob
provability logic. Each logic is axiomatised by adding a single axiom to K4,
and is shown to have the finite model property and be decidable.
We then consider a number of extensions of these logics, including
restricting to reflexive frames to obtain a corresponding sequence of
extensions of S4. When , this gives the famous logic of Grzegorczyk, known
as S4Grz, which is the strongest modal companion to intuitionistic
propositional logic. A topological semantic analysis shows that the -th
member of the sequence of extensions of S4 is the logic of hereditarily
-irresolvable spaces when the modality is interpreted as the
topological closure operation. We also study the definability of this class of
spaces under the interpretation of as the derived set (of limit
points) operation.
The variety of modal algebras validating the -th logic is shown to be
generated by the powerset algebras of the finite frames with cycle length
bounded by . Moreover each algebra in the variety is a model of the
universal theory of the finite ones, and so is embeddable into an ultraproduct
of them
Algebraic foundations for qualitative calculi and networks
A qualitative representation is like an ordinary representation of a
relation algebra, but instead of requiring , as
we do for ordinary representations, we only require that , for each in the algebra. A constraint
network is qualitatively satisfiable if its nodes can be mapped to elements of
a qualitative representation, preserving the constraints. If a constraint
network is satisfiable then it is clearly qualitatively satisfiable, but the
converse can fail. However, for a wide range of relation algebras including the
point algebra, the Allen Interval Algebra, RCC8 and many others, a network is
satisfiable if and only if it is qualitatively satisfiable.
Unlike ordinary composition, the weak composition arising from qualitative
representations need not be associative, so we can generalise by considering
network satisfaction problems over non-associative algebras. We prove that
computationally, qualitative representations have many advantages over ordinary
representations: whereas many finite relation algebras have only infinite
representations, every finite qualitatively representable algebra has a finite
qualitative representation; the representability problem for (the atom
structures of) finite non-associative algebras is NP-complete; the network
satisfaction problem over a finite qualitatively representable algebra is
always in NP; the validity of equations over qualitative representations is
co-NP-complete. On the other hand we prove that there is no finite
axiomatisation of the class of qualitatively representable algebras.Comment: 22 page
Generalized Fock Spaces, New Forms of Quantum Statistics and their Algebras
We formulate a theory of generalized Fock spaces which underlies the
different forms of quantum statistics such as ``infinite'', Bose-Einstein and
Fermi-Dirac statistics. Single-indexed systems as well as multi-indexed systems
that cannot be mapped into single-indexed systems are studied. Our theory is
based on a three-tiered structure consisting of Fock space, statistics and
algebra. This general formalism not only unifies the various forms of
statistics and algebras, but also allows us to construct many new forms of
quantum statistics as well as many algebras of creation and destruction
operators. Some of these are : new algebras for infinite statistics,
q-statistics and its many avatars, a consistent algebra for fractional
statistics, null statistics or statistics of frozen order, ``doubly-infinite''
statistics, many representations of orthostatistics, Hubbard statistics and its
variations.Comment: This is a revised version of the earlier preprint: mp_arc 94-43.
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