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Title: Boundary terms for causal sets
Authors: Buck, Michel
Dowker, Fay
Jubb, Ian
Surya, Sumati
Issue Date: 22-Oct-2015
Publisher: Institute of Physics
Citation: Classical and Quantum Gravity, 2015, Vol.32, p 205004
Abstract: We propose a family of boundary terms for the action of a causal set with a spacelike boundary. We show that in the continuum limit one recovers the Gibbons–Hawking–York boundary term in the mean. We also calculate the continuum limit of the mean causal set action for an Alexandrov interval in flat spacetime. We find that it is equal to the volume of the codimension-2 intersection of the two light-cone boundaries of the interval.
Description: Restricted Access. An open-access version is available at arXiv.org (one of the alternative locations)
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/2289/6383
ISSN: 0264-9381
1361-6382(Online)
Alternative Location: http://arxiv.org/abs/1502.05388
http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0264-9381/32/20/205004
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2015CQGra..32t5004B
Copyright: 2015 Institute of Physics
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