Signature change of the metric in CDT quantum gravity?

DOI10.1007/JHEP08(2015)033MaRDI QIDQ2635686zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors D. N. Coumbe, J. Gizbert-Studnicki, Jan Ambjørn, J. Jurkiewicz

Publication date 31 May 2018

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1503.08580

zbMATH Keywords

lattice models of gravitymodels of quantum gravity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45)

Abstract: We study the effective transfer matrix within the semiclassical and bifurcation phases of CDT quantum gravity. We find that for sufficiently large lattice volumes the kinetic term of the effective transfer matrix has a different sign in each of the two phases. We argue that this sign change can be viewed as a Wick rotation of the metric. We discuss the likely microscopic mechanism responsible for the bifurcation phase transition, and propose an order parameter that can potentially be used to determine the precise location and order of the transition. Using the effective transfer matrix we approximately locate the position of the bifurcation transition in some region of coupling constant space, allowing us to present an updated version of the CDT phase diagram.

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