A numerical study of the correspondence between paths in a causal set and geodesics in the continuum

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/23/10/002MaRDI QIDQ5481046zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Raluca Ilie, Gregory B. Thompson, David D. Reid

Publication date 7 August 2006

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0512073, http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/58102

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Equations of motion in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C10) Applications of global differential geometry to the sciences (53C80) Computational methods for problems pertaining to relativity and gravitational theory (83-08)

Abstract: This paper presents the results of a computational study related to the path-geodesic correspondence in causal sets. For intervals in flat spacetimes, and in selected curved spacetimes, we present evidence that the longest maximal chains (the longest paths) in the corresponding causal set intervals statistically approach the geodesic for that interval in the appropriate continuum limit.

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