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I. Raptis

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arXiv2006

Spacetime topology from the tomographic histories approach: Part II

As an inverse problem, we recover the topology of the effective spacetime that a system lies in, in an operational way. This means that from a series of experiments we get a set of points corresponding to events. This continues the previous work done by the authors. Here we use the existence of upper bound in the speed of transfer of matter and information to induce a partial order on the set of events. While the actual partial order is not known in our operational set up, the grouping of events to (unordered) subsets corresponding to possible histories, is given. From this we recover the partial order up to certain ambiguities that are then classified. Finally two different ways to recover the topology are sketched and their interpretation is discussed.

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arXiv2002

Finitary Cech-de Rham Cohomology: much ado without smoothness

The present paper is a continuation of our work on curved finitary spacetime sheaves of incidence algebras and treats the latter along Cech cohomological lines. In particular, we entertain the possibility of constructing a non-trivial de Rham complex on these finite dimensional algebra sheaves along the lines of the first author's axiomatic approach to differential geometry via the theory of vector and algebra sheaves. The upshot of this study is that important `classical' differential geometric constructions and results usually thought of as being intimately associated with smooth manifolds carry through, virtually unaltered, to the finitary-algebraic regime with the help of some quite universal, because abstract, ideas taken mainly from sheaf-cohomology as developed in the first author's Abstract Differential Geometry theory. At the end of the paper, and due to the fact that the incidence algebras involved have been previously interpreted as quantum causal sets, we discuss how these ideas may be used in certain aspects of current research on discrete Lorentzian quantum gravity.

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arXiv2001

Finitary Spacetime Sheaves of Quantum Causal Sets: Curving Quantum Causality

A locally finite, causal and quantal substitute for a locally Minkowskian principal fiber bundle $\cal{P}$ of modules of Cartan differential forms $\omg$ over a bounded region $X$ of a curved $C^{\infty}$-smooth differential manifold spacetime $M$ with structure group ${\bf G}$ that of orthochronous Lorentz transformations $L^{+}:=SO(1,3)^{\uparrow}$, is presented. ${\cal{P}}$ is the structure on which classical Lorentzian gravity, regarded as a Yang-Mills type of gauge theory of a $sl(2,\com)$-valued connection 1-form $\cal{A}$, is usually formulated. The mathematical structure employed to model this replacement of ${\cal{P}}$ is a principal finitary spacetime sheaf $\vec{\cal{P}}_{n}$ of quantum causal sets $\amg_{n}$ with structure group ${\bf G}_{n}$, which is a finitary version of the group ${\bf G}$ of local symmetries of General Relativity, and a finitary Lie algebra ${\bf g}_{n}$-valued connection 1-form ${\cal{A}}_{n}$ on it, which is a section of its sub-sheaf $\amg^{1}_{n}$. ${\cal{A}}_{n}$ is physically interpreted as the dynamical field of a locally finite quantum causality, while its associated curvature ${\cal{F}}_{n}$, as some sort of `finitary Lorentzian quantum gravity.

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