The topology of branching universes
Abstract
The purpose of this paper is to survey the possible topologies of branching space-times, and, in particular, to refute the popular notion in the literature that a branching space-time requires a non-Hausdorff topology.Links
PhilArchive
External links
(no proxy)
Setup an account with your affiliations in order to access resources via your University's proxy server
Through your library
- Only published works are available at libraries.
My notes
Similar books and articles
Newtonian determinism to branching space-times indeterminism in two moves.Nuel Belnap - 2012 - Synthese 188 (1):5-21.
Zeeman-göbel topologies.Adrian Heathcote - 1988 - British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 39 (2):247-261.
Indeterminism is a modal notion: branching spacetimes and Earman’s pruning. [REVIEW]T. Placek - 2012 - Synthese 187 (2):441-469.
A branching space-times view on quantum error correction.Thomas Müller - 2007 - Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B: Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics 38 (3):635-652.
Analytics
Added to PP
2009-01-28
Downloads
23 (#502,277)
6 months
1 (#451,971)
2009-01-28
Downloads
23 (#502,277)
6 months
1 (#451,971)
Historical graph of downloads
Citations of this work
On Topological Issues of Indeterminism.Tomasz Placek, Nuel Belnap & Kohei Kishida - 2014 - Erkenntnis 79 (S3):1-34.
A Generalized Manifold Topology for Branching Space-Times.Thomas Müller - 2013 - Philosophy of Science 80 (5):1089-1100.
Branching space-times, general relativity, the Hausdorff property, and modal consistency.Thomas Muller - unknown
New Foundations for Branching Space-Times.N. Belnap, T. Müller & T. Placek - 2021 - Studia Logica 109 (2):239-284.
References found in this work
Space-time topology and quantum gravity.John L. Friedman - 1991 - In A. Ashtekar & J. Stachel (eds.), Conceptual Problems of Quantum Gravity. Birkhauser. pp. 1--539.
