Continuum random combs and scale-dependent spectral dimension

DOI10.1088/1751-8113/44/26/265001MaRDI QIDQ3021467zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Max R. Atkin, Georgios Giasemidis, J. F. Wheater

Publication date 25 July 2011

Published in Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1101.4174

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Renormalization group methods applied to problems in quantum field theory (81T17) Computational methods for problems pertaining to relativity and gravitational theory (83-08) Lattice gravity, Regge calculus and other discrete methods in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C27) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45)

Abstract: Numerical computations have suggested that in causal dynamical triangulation models of quantum gravity the effective dimension of spacetime in the UV is lower than in the IR. In this paper we develop a simple model based on previous work on random combs, which share some of the properties of CDT, in which this effect can be shown to occur analytically. We construct a definition for short and long distance spectral dimensions and show that the random comb models exhibit scale dependent spectral dimension defined in this way. We also observe that a hierarchy of apparent spectral dimensions may be obtained in the cross-over region between UV and IR regimes for suitable choices of the continuum variables. Our main result is valid for a wide class of tooth length distributions thereby extending previous work on random combs by Durhuus et al.

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