Causal set dynamics: a toy model

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/16/6/315MaRDI QIDQ4699968zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Henri Waelbroeck, A. Criscuolo

Publication date 18 November 1999

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9811088

zbMATH Keywords

non-cyclic oriented graphsquantum interference patternsquantum measure

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum measurement theory, state operations, state preparations (81P15) Percolation (82B43) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45)

Abstract: We construct a quantum measure on the power set of non-cyclic oriented graphs of N points, drawing inspiration from 1-dimensional directed percolation. Quantum interference patterns lead to properties which do not appear to have any analogue in classical percolation. Most notably, instead of the single phase transition of classical percolation, the quantum model displays two distinct crossover points. Between these two points, spacetime questions such as "does the network percolate" have no definite or probabilistic answer.

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