This monograph presents the first detailed exposition of the formal theory of Branching Space-Times. The theory presented here by Nuel Belnap, Thomas Muller, and Tomasz Placek describes how real possibilities can play out in our spatio-temporal world. In our world, some things that are really possible in Cleveland are not really possible in San Francisco; other things were really possible in 1988 but are not really possible in 2021. The authors develop a rigorous, relativity-friendly theory of indeterminism as a local and modal concept, demonstrating that our world contains events with alternative possible outcomes.\nThe book is divided into two parts. The first contains the exposition of the theory, including detailed proofs. The second contains three applications of Branching Space-Times in metaphysics and philosophy of science, focusing on the use of Branching Space-Times to represent pertinent forms of indeterminism in each area. Some specific applications include a formal analysis of modal correlations and of causation and a rigorous theory of objective single-case probabilities, intended to represent degrees of possibility. The authors link their theory to current physics, investigating how local and modal indeterminism relates to issues in the foundations of physics, particularly in quantum non-locality and spatio-temporal relativity. They also relate the theory to philosophy of time, showing how it may be used to explicate the dynamic concept of the past, present, and future based on local indeterminism.\nThe Branching Space-Times theory has been in development over the past 25 years. This volume provides a much needed first systematic and comprehensive book-length exposition of both the theory and its applications.\nThis is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International license. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.

Branching Space-Times: Theory and Applications (Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Science)

Politics & Social Sciences

Belnap, Nuel

Müller, Thomas

Placek, Tomasz

Philosophy

Oxford University Press

The theory of R-trees is a well-established and important area of geometric group theory and in this book the authors introduce a construction that provides a new perspective on group actions on R-trees. They construct a group RF(G), equipped with an action on an R-tree, whose elements are certain functions from a compact real interval to the group G. They also study the structure of RF(G), including a detailed description of centralizers of elements and an investigation of its subgroups and quotients. Any group acting freely on an R-tree embeds in RF(G) for some choice of G. Much remains to be done to understand RF(G), and the extensive list of open problems included in an appendix could potentially lead to new methods for investigating group actions on R-trees, particularly free actions. This book will interest all geometric group theorists and model theorists whose research involves R-trees.

A Universal Construction for Groups Acting Freely on Real Trees (Cambridge Tracts in Mathematics, Series Number 195)

Science & Math

Chiswell, Ian

Mathematics

Cambridge University Press

The discovery of a car buried under a winter's worth of snow holds more than just the body of the dead driver.

Catherine

Literature & Fiction

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

The environment consists of the surroundings in which an organism operates. It is mankind that is, by and large, ruining the environment both for itself and for all other organisms. This collection covers research in a cross-section of fields centring on the environment.

Advances in Environmental Research

Haider, Max

Earth Sciences

Nova Science Pub Inc

Honor Among Thieves

Independently published

The Prophecy Of Nightmares

Genre Fiction

Rasch wechselnde rechtspolitische Zielvorgaben bestimmen das Wirtschaftsrecht und erzeugen situationsbezogenes Maßnahmenrecht. Ein systematischer Überblick zum dynamischen Rechtstoff: Entwicklungslinien, Rahmenbedingungen, Grundlagen, Vernetzung des (inter)nationalen Rechts. U.a.: Wirtschaftsverfassung, Recht der Wettbewerbssicherung und öffentlichen Unternehmen, Wirtschaftspolizei-, -aufsichts-, -lenkungsrecht. Mit Beispielen, Wiederholungsfragen.

Wirtschaftsrecht: International – Europäisch – National (Springers Kurzlehrbücher der Rechtswissenschaft) (German Edition)

Wimmer, Norbert

Foreign & International Law

Springer

Die Kinderarmut in Deutschland nimmt zu. Neben der materiellen Not entsteht fast unbemerkt eine innere Notlage, die selbst Kinder und Jugendliche in materiellem Reichtum erleben können. Der Autor zeigt pädagogische Zugänge auf, der inneren Armut von Kindern und Jugendlichen zu begegnen.

Innere Armut: Kinder und Jugendliche zwischen Mangel und Überfluss (German Edition)

Social Sciences

VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften

Weak Interactions: Invited Papers presented at the second international Summer School for Theoretical Physics University of Karlsruhe (July 14 – August 1, 1969) (Springer Tracts in Modern Physics)

Höhler, Gerhard

Steiner, Frank

Woggon, Ulrike

Fujimori, Atsushi

Wölfle, Peter

Stwalley, William C

Kühn, Johann

Trümper, Joachim E.

Physics

Book is used and has been withdrawn from service from a Library. Book has a Library Binding and the usual Library Stamps, Stickers, Card Holder, Library Markings. May or May Not have a Dust Jacket.

Solid-State Physics (Springer Tracts in Modern Physics)

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