A geometric renormalization group in discrete quantum space–time

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DOI10.1063/1.1619579zbMATH Open1063.83006arXivgr-qc/0110077OpenAlexW2079506013MaRDI QIDQ4833199FDOQ4833199


Authors: Manfred Requardt Edit this on Wikidata


Publication date: 14 December 2004

Published in: Journal of Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We model quantum space-time on the Planck scale as dynamical networks of elementary relations or time dependent random graphs, the time dependence being an effect of the underlying dynamical network laws. We formulate a kind of geometric renormalisation group on these (random) networks leading to a hierarchy of increasingly coarse-grained networks of overlapping lumps. We provide arguments that this process may generate a fixed limit phase, representing our continuous space-time on a mesoscopic or macroscopic scale, provided that the underlying discrete geometry is critical in a specific sense (geometric long range order). Our point of view is corroborated by a series of analytic and numerical results, which allow to keep track of the geometric changes, taking place on the various scales of the resolution of space-time. Of particular conceptual importance are the notions of dimension of such random systems on the various scales and the notion of geometric criticality.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0110077




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