Induced spatial geometry from causal structure

DOI10.1088/1361-6382/AB114BzbMATH Open1475.83033arXiv1809.06192OpenAlexW3104170813WikidataQ64298180 ScholiaQ64298180MaRDI QIDQ3380419FDOQ3380419

Authors: Astrid Eichhorn, Sumati Surya, Fleur Versteegen 

Publication date: 28 September 2021

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

Abstract: Motivated by the Hawking-King-McCarthy-Malament (HKMM) theorem and the associated reconstruction of spacetime geometry from its causal structure $(M,prec)$ and local volume element $epsilon$, we define a one-parameter family of spatial distance functions on a Cauchy hypersurface $Sigma$ using only $(M,prec)$ and $epsilon$. The parameter corresponds to a "mesoscale" cut-off which, when appropriately chosen, provides a distance function which approximates the induced spatial distance function to leading order. This admits a straightforward generalisation to the discrete analogue of a Cauchy hypersurface in a causal set. For causal sets which are approximated by continuum spacetimes, this distance function approaches the continuum induced distance when the mesoscale is much smaller than the scale of the extrinsic curvature of the hypersurface, but much larger than the discreteness scale. We verify these expectations by performing extensive numerical simulations of causal sets which are approximated by simple spacetime regions in 2 and 3 spacetime dimensions.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.06192

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zbMATH Keywords

causal structurequantum gravitycausal sets

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Causal inference from observational studies (62D20) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45) Flows related to mean curvature (53E10) Hyperbolic 3-manifolds (57K32)

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