On the causal set–continuum correspondence

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/31/20/205013zbMATH Open1304.83036arXiv1403.6429OpenAlexW1978523887MaRDI QIDQ2936441FDOQ2936441

Mehdi Saravani, Siavash Aslanbeigi

Publication date: 16 December 2014

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

Abstract: We present two results which concern certain aspects of the question: when is a causal set well approximated by a Lorentzian manifold? The first result is a theorem which shows that the number-volume correspondence, if required to hold even for arbitrarily small regions, is best realized via Poisson sprinkling. The second result concerns a family of lattices in $1+1$ dimensional Minkowski space, known as Lorentzian lattices, which we show provide a much better number-volume correspondence than Poisson sprinkling for large volumes. We argue, however, that this feature should not persist in higher dimensions. We conclude by conjecturing a form of the aforementioned theorem that holds under weaker assumptions, namely that Poisson sprinkling provides the best number-volume correspondence in $3+1$ dimensions for spacetime regions with macroscopically large volumes.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1403.6429

zbMATH Keywords

Lorentzian latticescausal setPoisson sprinkling

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Space-time singularities, cosmic censorship, etc. (83C75)

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