Boundary terms for causal sets

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/32/20/205004MaRDI QIDQ3453158zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Michel Buck, Fay Dowker, I. Jubb, Sumati Surya

Publication date 20 November 2015

Published in Classical and Quantum Gravity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1502.05388

zbMATH Keywords

causal setsgravitational actionquantum gravity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Philosophical and critical aspects of logic and foundations (03A05) Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Gravitational energy and conservation laws; groups of motions (83C40) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45)

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.

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