In this paper we study the evolution of a LRS Bianchi I Universe, filled with a bulk viscous cosmological fluid in the presence of time varying constants " but " taking into account the effects of a c-variable into the curvature tensor. We find that the only physical models are those which " constants " G and c are growing functions on time t, while the cosmological constant Λ is a negative dec...

We introduce a new kind of causality between events of a distributed system that takes the nature of the events into account. More precisely, we distinguish between read (receive) and write (send) operations, yielding a relation called . We clarify the intuition of our causality relation through examples, and we compare it with classical models of causality. Also, we show that it is better suit...

This paper examines empirically the tourism impact on the long-run economic growth of Greece by using the causality analysis among real gross domestic product, real effective exchange rate and international tourism earnings. A multivariate autoregressive VAR model is applied for the examined period 1960:Ι – 2000:IV. The results of cointegration analysis suggested that there is one cointegrated ...

It is known that every causality-preserving transformation of Minkowski space-time is a composition of Lorentz transformations, shifts, rotations, and dilations. In principle, this result means that by only knowing the causality relation, we can determine the coordinate and metric structure on the space-time. However, strictly speaking, the theorem only says that this reconstruction is possible...

In this paper we have investigated an LRS Bianchi I anisotropic cosmological model of the universe by taking time varying G and Λ in the presence of bulk viscous fluid source described by full causal non-equilibrium thermodynamics. We obtain a cosmological constant as a decreasing function of time and for m,n > 0, the value of cosmological “constant” for this model is found to be small and posi...

In this paper we have investigated an LRS Bianchi I anisotropic cosmological model of the universe by taking time varying G and Λ in the presence of bulk viscous fluid source described by full causal non-equilibrium thermodynamics. We obtain a cosmological constant as a decreasing function of time and for m,n > 0, the value of cosmological “constant” for this model is found to be small and posi...

Peirce’s pragmatic notion of semiosis can be described in terms of a multi-level system of constraints involving chance, efficient, formal and final causation. According to the model proposed here, law-like regularities, which work as boundary conditions or organizational principles, have a downward effect on the spatiotemporal distribution of lower-level semiotic items. We treat this downward ...

We prove that a globally hyperbolic spacetime with its causality relation is a bicontinuous poset whose interval topology is the manifold topology. This provides an abstract mathematical setting in which one can study causality independent of geometry and differentiable structure.

We prove that a globally hyperbolic spacetime with its causality relation is a bicontinuous poset whose interval topology is the manifold topology. From this one can show that from only a countable dense set of events and the causality relation, it is possible to reconstruct a globally hyperbolic spacetime in a purely order theoretic manner. The ultimate reason for this is that globally hyperbo...