On the cardinality of future worldlines in discrete spacetime structures

DOI10.1007/S10701-023-00701-1zbMath1522.81012arXiv2109.14042OpenAlexW4379374982MaRDI QIDQ6168868

Ahmet Sinan Cevik, Zeki C. Seskir

Publication date: 9 August 2023

Published in: Foundations of Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2109.14042

zbMATH Keywords

multiversedeterminismclosed timelike curvesCantor spacediscrete spacetimecausal setsmathematical cosmologycomputable treeseffectively closed sets

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General and philosophical questions in quantum theory (81P05) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45) Global differential geometry of Lorentz manifolds, manifolds with indefinite metrics (53C50) Recursively (computably) enumerable sets and degrees (03D25) Algorithmic randomness and dimension (03D32)

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