Approximate Killing symmetries in non-perturbative quantum gravity

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Publication date 4 November 2021

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

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Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.14518

zbMATH Keywords

discrete geometryobservablescausal dynamical triangulationsdiscrete exterior calculusnon-perturbative quantum gravityapproximate Killing vector fields

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Discrete version of topics in analysis (39A12) Nonperturbative methods of renormalization applied to problems in quantum field theory (81T16) Approximation procedures, weak fields in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C25) Gravitational energy and conservation laws; groups of motions (83C40) Black holes (83C57) Triangulation and topological properties of semi-analytic andsubanalytic sets, and related questions (32B25)

Abstract: It is an open question whether fluctuations at the Planck scale in a non-perturbative theory of quantum gravity behave in such a way that the resulting semi-classical geometry can be modelled by a space that admits (approximate) Killing symmetries. We have investigated whether the notion of approximate Killing vector fields is suitable to address this question in lattice theories of quantum gravity, such as (Causal) Dynamical Triangulations. We show that it is possible to construct quantum observables related to approximate Killing vector fields using the framework of Discrete Exterior Calculus. We have evaluated the expectation value of one particular choice of observable on three toy models of two-dimensional quantum gravity.

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