On the continuum limit of Benincasa-Dowker-Glaser causal set action

DOI10.1088/1361-6382/ABC274MaRDI QIDQ5162472zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Ludovico MacHet, Jinzhao Wang

Publication date 2 November 2021

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.13192

zbMATH Keywords

quantum gravitygravitational actionboundary termscausal set theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Methods of global Riemannian geometry, including PDE methods; curvature restrictions (53C21) Boundary value problems on manifolds (58J32) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45) Convex sets without dimension restrictions (aspects of convex geometry) (52A05)

Abstract: We study the continuum limit of the Benincasa-Dowker-Glaser causal set action on a causally convex compact region. In particular, we compute the action of a causal set randomly sprinkled on a small causal diamond in the presence of arbitrary curvature in various spacetime dimensions. In the continuum limit, we show that the action admits a finite limit. More importantly, the limit is composed by an Einstein-Hilbert bulk term as predicted by the Benincasa-Dowker-Glaser action, and a boundary term exactly proportional to the codimension-two joint volume. Our calculation provides strong evidence in support of the conjecture that the Benincasa-Dowker-Glaser action naturally includes codimension-two boundary terms when evaluated on causally convex regions.

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