Semiclassical quantum gravity: statistics of combinatorial Riemannian geometries

DOI10.1002/ANDP.200410144MaRDI QIDQ5311902zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Luca Bombelli, Alejandro Corichi, Oliver Winkler

Publication date 29 August 2005

Published in Annalen der Physik (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0409006

zbMATH Keywords

canonical quantum gravitycell complexessemiclassical quantum states

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Manifolds and cell complexes (57-XX) Semiclassical techniques, including WKB and Maslov methods applied to problems in quantum theory (81Q20) Gravitational energy and conservation laws; groups of motions (83C40) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45)

Abstract: This paper is a contribution to the development of a framework, to be used in the context of semiclassical canonical quantum gravity, in which to frame questions about the correspondence between discrete spacetime structures at "quantum scales" and continuum, classical geometries at large scales. Such a correspondence can be meaningfully established when one has a "semiclassical" state in the underlying quantum gravity theory, and the uncertainties in the correspondence arise both from quantum fluctuations in this state and from the kinematical procedure of matching a smooth geometry to a discrete one. We focus on the latter type of uncertainty, and suggest the use of statistical geometry as a way to quantify it. With a cell complex as an example of discrete structure, we discuss how to construct quantities that define a smooth geometry, and how to estimate the associated uncertainties. We also comment briefly on how to combine our results with uncertainties in the underlying quantum state, and on their use when considering phenomenological aspects of quantum gravity.

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