Manifold properties from causal sets using chains

DOI10.1088/1361-6382/ABC8C9MaRDI QIDQ5162489zbMATHOpenAlexFDO

Authors Joachim Kambor, Nomaan X

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/2007.03835

zbMATH Keywords

scalar curvaturecausal setsgeometrical reconstructionmanifoldlikeness

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Causal inference from observational studies (62D20) Equations of motion in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C10) Methods of global Riemannian geometry, including PDE methods; curvature restrictions (53C21) Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Logic on admissible sets (03C70)

Abstract: We study the utility of chains defined on causal sets in estimating continuum properties like the curvature, the proper time and the spacetime dimension through a numerical analysis. In particular, we show that in $ext{dS}_2$ and $ext{FLRW}_3$ spacetimes the formalism of arXiv:1212.0631 with slight modifications gives the right continuum properties. We also discuss a possible test of manifoldlikeness using this formalism by considering two models of non-manifoldlike causal sets. This is a part of a broader idea of the geometrical reconstruction of continuum properties given a discrete sub structure, in this case the causal set.

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