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    • Surface layer integrals

    Further Structures I

    • Manifolds of operators
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    • Fock space structures
    • Notions of entropy

    Analytic Structures

    • The Euler-Lagrange equations
    • The linearized field equations
    • The dynamical wave equation
    • Construction of linear fields and waves

    Further Structures II

    • Positive functionals
    • The fermionic signature operator
    • Action-driven flows

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    Elementary Structures

    • What is a causal fermion system?
    • The causal structure
    • Motivation for the choice of $\F$

    Phenomenology

    • A mechanism of baryogenesis
    • A mechanism for dark matter and dark energy
    • Wave function collapse

    Central Ideas of the Theory

    • The causal action principle
    • The continuum limit
    • The logic underlying the derivation of the classical field equations

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    • The fermionic projector
    • Geometric structures
    • Surface layer integrals
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    • The linearized field equations
    • The dynamical wave equation
    • Construction of linear fields and waves
    • Minkowski space as a causal fermion system
    • The continuum limit
    • Connection to quantum field theory
    • Connection to General Relativity
    • Manifolds of operators
    • Operator algebras
    • Causal cone structures
    • Fock space structures
    • Notions of entropy
    • Positive functionals
    • The fermionic signature operator
    • Action-driven flows
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    • Motivation in examples
    • What is a causal fermion system?
    • The causal structure
    • Motivation for the choice of F
    • The causal action principle
    • The continuum limit
    • The logic underlying the derivation of the classical field equations
    • The Standard Model and General Relativity
    • Quantum field theory
    • Why the Dirac sea?
    • What is fundamental?
    • Underlying physical principles
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    • The linearized field equations
    • The dynamical wave equation
    • Construction of linear fields and waves
    • Minkowski space as a causal fermion system
    • The continuum limit
    • Connection to quantum field theory
    • Connection to General Relativity
    • Manifolds of operators
    • Operator algebras
    • Causal cone structures
    • Fock space structures
    • Notions of entropy
    • Positive functionals
    • The fermionic signature operator
    • Action-driven flows
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    • What is a causal fermion system?
    • The causal structure
    • Motivation for the choice of F
    • The causal action principle
    • The continuum limit
    • The logic underlying the derivation of the classical field equations
    • The Standard Model and General Relativity
    • Quantum field theory
    • Why the Dirac sea?
    • What is fundamental?
    • Underlying physical principles
    • A mechanism of baryogenesis
    • A mechanism for dark matter and dark energy
    • Wave function collapse
    • Comments on Quantum Gravity wishlists
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