When scale is surplus

DOI10.1007/s11229-021-03443-7zbMath1528.83101arXiv2103.07384MaRDI QIDQ6180172

David M. Sloan, Sean Gryb

Publication date: 19 January 2024

Published in: Synthese (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.07384

zbMATH Keywords

symmetrycosmologycontact geometryarrow of timedynamical similaritysingularity resolutionsurplus structure

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General relativity (83C99)

Related Items (4)

Pure shape dynamics: general framework ⋮ Orbital dynamics on invariant sets of contact Hamiltonian systems ⋮ Herglotz action for homogeneous cosmologies ⋮ Scaling symmetries, contact reduction and Poincaré’s dream

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