Inference of boundaries in causal sets

DOI10.1088/1361-6382/AAADC4MaRDI QIDQ3177400zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors William J. Cunningham

Publication date 25 July 2018

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1710.09705

zbMATH Keywords

algorithmscomputational geometryquantum gravitycausal setsspacetime geometryGibbons-Hawking-York boundary terms

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45) Continuous lattices and posets, applications (06B35)

Abstract: We investigate the extrinsic geometry of causal sets in $(1+1)$-dimensional Minkowski spacetime. The properties of boundaries in an embedding space can be used not only to measure observables, but also to supplement the discrete action in the partition function via discretized Gibbons-Hawking-York boundary terms. We define several ways to represent a causal set using overlapping subsets, which then allows us to distinguish between null and non-null bounding hypersurfaces in an embedding space. We discuss algorithms to differentiate between different types of regions, consider when these distinctions are possible, and then apply the algorithms to several spacetime regions. Numerical results indicate the volumes of timelike boundaries can be measured to within $0.5\mathrm{\%}$ accuracy for flat boundaries and within $10\mathrm{\%}$ accuracy for highly curved boundaries for medium-sized causal sets with $N=2^{14}$ spacetime elements.

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