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This research aims to clarify how nonlocal theories like History-Dependent Gravity can maintain causality through emergent structures.

July 8, 2026Open Access

History-Dependent Gravity XVI: Emergent Causality from Temporal Memory Kernels

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This randomized trial demonstrates that soft causality emerges in nonlocal gravity theories, suggesting new observational implications.

This research aims to clarify how nonlocal theories like History-Dependent Gravity can maintain causality through emergent structures.
Introduced the concept of soft causality to classify HDG models based on temporal memory kernels.
Analyzed spectral and analytic properties of the memory kernel K(τ) to derive a causality parameter η.
Discussed observational implications through gravitational wave propagation and large-scale structure growth.
Confirmed the absence of negative-norm states in HDG models up to corrections of order O(η).
Demonstrated that advanced contributions are perturbatively suppressed in the soft regime, not enabling retrocausal signaling.
Showed that the soft-causality parameter η can be tested through gravitational-wave phase shifts.

Alik Gimranov (2026) studied this question.

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