Lorentzian spectral geometry with causal sets

DOI10.1088/1361-6382/ABC3F8zbMATH Open1479.83101arXiv2008.02291OpenAlexW3047604530MaRDI QIDQ5162473FDOQ5162473

Authors: Yasaman K. Yazdi, Marco Letizia, Achim Kempf 

Publication date: 2 November 2021

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

Abstract: We study discrete Lorentzian spectral geometry by investigating to what extent causal sets can be identified through a set of geometric invariants such as spectra. We build on previous work where it was shown that the spectra of certain operators derived from the causal matrix possess considerable but not complete power to distinguish causal sets. We find two especially successful methods for classifying causal sets and we computationally test them for all causal sets of up to $9$ elements. One of the spectral geometric methods that we study involves holding a given causal set fixed and collecting a growing set of its geometric invariants such as spectra (including the spectra of the commutator of certain operators). The second method involves obtaining a limited set of geometric invariants for a given causal set while also collecting these geometric invariants for small `perturbations' of the causal set, a novel method that may also be useful in other areas of spectral geometry. We show that with a suitably chosen set of geometric invariants, this new method fully resolves the causal sets we considered. Concretely, we consider for this purpose perturbations of the original causal set that are formed by adding one element and a link. We discuss potential applications to the path integral in quantum gravity.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.02291

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zbMATH Keywords

quantum gravityquantum field theoryspectral geometrypath integralcausal set theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Spectral problems; spectral geometry; scattering theory on manifolds (58J50) Quantum field theory on curved space or space-time backgrounds (81T20) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45) Path integrals in quantum mechanics (81S40)

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• Mathematica

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