Fractal space-times under the microscope: a renormalization group view on Monte Carlo data

DOI10.1007/JHEP12(2011)012zbMATH Open1306.83026arXiv1110.5224OpenAlexW3105833786WikidataQ62122277 ScholiaQ62122277MaRDI QIDQ2261330FDOQ2261330

Frank Saueressig, M. Reuter

Publication date: 6 March 2015

Published in: Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The emergence of fractal features in the microscopic structure of space-time is a common theme in many approaches to quantum gravity. In this work we carry out a detailed renormalization group study of the spectral dimension $d_s$ and walk dimension $d_w$ associated with the effective space-times of asymptotically safe Quantum Einstein Gravity (QEG). We discover three scaling regimes where these generalized dimensions are approximately constant for an extended range of length scales: a classical regime where $d_s=d,d_w=2$, a semi-classical regime where $d_s=2d/(2+d),d_w=2+d$, and the UV-fixed point regime where $d_s=d/2,d_w=4$. On the length scales covered by three-dimensional Monte Carlo simulations, the resulting spectral dimension is shown to be in very good agreement with the data. This comparison also provides a natural explanation for the apparent puzzle between the short distance behavior of the spectral dimension reported from Causal Dynamical Triangulations (CDT), Euclidean Dynamical Triangulations (EDT), and Asymptotic Safety.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1110.5224

zbMATH Keywords

renormalization grouplattice models of gravitymodels of quantum gravitynonperturbative effects

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum mechanics on special spaces: manifolds, fractals, graphs, lattices (81Q35) Nonperturbative methods of renormalization applied to problems in quantum field theory (81T16) Renormalization group methods applied to problems in quantum field theory (81T17) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45) Quantum field theory on lattices (81T25)

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