Entropy of random coverings and 4D quantum gravity

DOI10.1016/0393-0440(95)00013-5zbMath0895.54008arXivhep-th/9412097OpenAlexW2028578855WikidataQ127172157 ScholiaQ127172157MaRDI QIDQ1912265

Claudio Bartocci, Annalisa Marzuoli, Ugo Bruzzo, Mauro Carfora

Publication date: 10 September 1998

Published in: Journal of Geometry and Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9412097

zbMATH Keywords

cohomology with local coefficientsReidemeister torsionRegge calculusrepresentation spacesdynamical triangulationsentropy estimate4D quantum gravityrandom coveringsrepresentations of the fundamental groupbounds on the critical exponentscounting minimal coveringsgeodesic ball coveringscaling of torsionssumming over coveringsvolume of the space of Riemannian structures

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45) Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Lattice gravity, Regge calculus and other discrete methods in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C27) Entropy in general topology (54C70) Packing and covering in (n) dimensions (aspects of discrete geometry) (52C17)

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Scaling in four-dimensional quantum gravity, Singular vertices and the triangulation space of the \(D\)-sphere, Discrete approaches to quantum gravity in four dimensions, On locally constructible spheres and balls

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