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Title: Dimensionally restricted causal set quantum gravity: examples in two and three dimensions
Authors: Cunningham, William J
Surya, Sumati
Keywords: quantum gravity
causal set theory
numerics
Issue Date: 7-Feb-2020
Publisher: IOP Publishing Ltd.
Citation: Classical and Quantum Gravity, 2020, Vol.37, p054002
Abstract: We study dimensionally restricted non-perturbative causal set quantum dynamics in 2 and 3 spacetime dimensions with non-trivial global spatial topology. The causal set sample space is generated from causal embeddings into spacetime lattices with global spatial topology S1 and T2 in 2 and 3 dimensions, respectively. The quantum gravity partition function over these sample spaces is studied using Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) simulations after analytic continuation. In both 2 and 3 dimensions we find a phase transition that separates the dominance of the action from that of the entropy. The action dominated phase is characterised by ``layered'' posets with a high degree of connectivity, while the causal sets in the entropy dominated phase are manifold-like. This phase transition is similar in character to that seen for the sample space of 2 -orders, which are topologically trivial, hence suggesting that this is a generic feature of dimensionally restricted sample spaces. The simulations use a newly developed framework for causal set MCMC calculations. Ours is the first implementation of a causal set dynamics restricted to 3 dimensions.
Description: Restricted Access.
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/2289/7453
ISSN: 0264-9381
1361-6382 (E)
Alternative Location: https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2019arXiv190811647C/abstract
https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.11647
https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6382/ab60b7
Copyright: 2020 IOP Publishing Ltd.
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