Conics, (q+1)-Arcs, Pencil Concept of Time and Psychopathology
| dc.creator | Saniga, Metod | |
| dc.date | 2003-01-02 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-07T04:54:13Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2026-07-07T04:54:13Z | |
| dc.description | It is demonstrated that in the (projective plane over) Galois fields GF(q) with q=2^n and n>2 (n being a positive integer) we can define, in addition to the temporal dimensions generated by pencils of conics, also time coordinates represented by aggregates of (q+1)-arcs that are not conics. The case is illustrated by a (self-dual) pencil of conics endowed with two singular conics of which one represents a double real line and the other is a real line pair. Although this pencil does not generate the ordinary (i.e., featuring the past, present and future) arrow of time over GF(2^n), there does exist a pencil-related family of (q+1)-arcs, not conics, that closely resembles such an arrow. Some psycho(patho)logical justifications of this finding are presented, based on the "peculiar/anomalous" experiences of time by a couple of schizophrenic patients. | |
| dc.description | 4 pages, no figures, LaTeX, to appear in Frontier Perspectives | |
| dc.identifier | https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0301009 | |
| dc.identifier | http://arxiv.org/abs/math/0301009 | |
| dc.identifier | Frontier Perspectives 12/2 (2003) 9-11 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/66164 | |
| dc.subject | Algebraic Geometry | |
| dc.title | Conics, (q+1)-Arcs, Pencil Concept of Time and Psychopathology | |
| dc.type | text |