Embedding causal sets into Minkowski spacetime

DOI10.1088/1361-6382/AC5922MaRDI QIDQ5077281zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Steven R. Johnston

Publication date 18 May 2022

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.09331

zbMATH Keywords

discrete spacetimediscrete embeddingscausal set theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Causal inference from observational studies (62D20) Quadratic and bilinear forms, inner products (15A63) Embeddings of discrete metric spaces into Banach spaces; applications in topology and computer science (46B85) Special relativity (83A05) Minkowski geometries in nonlinear incidence geometry (51B20)

Abstract: We present a new method for embedding a causal set into an interval of Minkowski spacetime. The method uses spacetime volumes for causally related elements to define causal set analogs of Minkowski inner products. These are used to construct matrices of inner products which are then factored using the singular value decomposition to give coordinates in Minkowski spacetime. Results are presented showing good quality embeddings into Minkowski spacetime for dimensions d=2,3,4. The method applies in any dimension and does not require spacelike distances to be used as an input. It offers a new way to define spatial orientation and spacelike distances in a causal set.

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