SIMPLICIAL QUANTUM GRAVITY ON A RANDOMLY TRIANGULATED SPHERE

DOI10.1142/S0217751X99001810MaRDI QIDQ4949044zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Christian Holm, Wolfhard Janke

Publication date 27 April 2000

Published in International Journal of Modern Physics A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-lat/9808008, http://www.wspc.com/journals/ijmpa/14/1424/0220.html

zbMATH Keywords

2D quantum gravityrandom latticesstring susceptibility exponentRegge calculus approachVoronoi-Delaunay procedure

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45) String and superstring theories in gravitational theory (83E30) Lattice gravity, Regge calculus and other discrete methods in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C27) Analogues of general relativity in lower dimensions (83C80)

Abstract: We study 2D quantum gravity on spherical topologies employing the Regge calculus approach with the dl/l measure. Instead of the normally used fixed non-regular triangulation we study random triangulations which are generated by the standard Voronoi-Delaunay procedure. For each system size we average the results over four different realizations of the random lattices. We compare both types of triangulations quantitatively and investigate how the difference in the expectation value of the squared curvature, $R^2$, for fixed and random triangulations depends on the lattice size and the surface area A. We try to measure the string susceptibility exponents through finite-size scaling analyses of the expectation value of an added $R^2$-interaction term, using two conceptually quite different procedures. The approach, where an ultraviolet cut-off is held fixed in the scaling limit, is found to be plagued with inconsistencies, as has already previously been pointed out by us. In a conceptually different approach, where the area A is held fixed, these problems are not present. We find the string susceptibility exponent $gamm{a}_{s^{\prime }tr}$ in rough agreement with theoretical predictions for the sphere, whereas the estimate for $gamm{a}_{str}$ appears to be too negative. However, our results are hampered by the presence of severe finite-size corrections to scaling, which lead to systematic uncertainties well above our statistical errors. We feel that the present methods of estimating the string susceptibilities by finite-size scaling studies are not accurate enough to serve as testing grounds to decide about a success or failure of quantum Regge calculus.

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