Spacelike distance from discrete causal order

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/26/15/155013MaRDI QIDQ3393293zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors David Rideout, Petros Wallden

Publication date 19 August 2009

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0810.1768

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Equations of motion in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C10) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45) Ordered topological structures (06F30) Lattice gravity, Regge calculus and other discrete methods in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C27)

Abstract: Any discrete approach to quantum gravity must provide some prescription as to how to deduce continuum properties from the discrete substructure. In the causal set approach it is straightforward to deduce timelike distances, but surprisingly difficult to extract spacelike distances, because of the unique combination of discreteness with local Lorentz invariance in that approach. We propose a number of methods to overcome this difficulty, one of which reproduces the spatial distance between two points in a finite region of Minkowski space. We provide numerical evidence that this definition can be used to define a `spatial nearest neighbor' relation on a causal set, and conjecture that this can be exploited to define the length of `continuous curves' in causal sets which are approximated by curved spacetime. This provides evidence in support of the ``Hauptvermutung of causal sets.

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