A tale of two actions a variational principle for two-dimensional causal sets

DOI10.1088/1361-6382/ABE6B7MaRDI QIDQ5163362zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Luca Bombelli, B. B. Pilgrim

Publication date 3 November 2021

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.12985

zbMATH Keywords

causal setsdiscretized gravityquantum gravity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Exact enumeration problems, generating functions (05A15) Thermodynamic formalism, variational principles, equilibrium states for dynamical systems (37D35) Minkowski geometries in nonlinear incidence geometry (51B20) Causal inference from observational studies (62D20) Classical dynamic and nonequilibrium statistical mechanics (general) (82C05) Exact solutions to problems in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C15) Lattice gravity, Regge calculus and other discrete methods in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C27) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45)

Abstract: In this paper we will explore two different proposals for the action for causal sets: the Benincasa-Dowker action and a modified version of the chain action. We propose a variational principle for two-dimensional causal sets and use it for both actions to determine which causal sets at least on average satisfy a discrete version of the Einstein equation. Specifically, we test this method on causal sets embedded in 2d Minkowski, de Sitter, and anti-de Sitter spacetimes and compare these results to the most prominent nonmanifoldlike causal sets, Kleitman-Rothschild causal sets.

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