Spectral dimension in causal set quantum gravity

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/31/12/125007MaRDI QIDQ5169549zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Astrid Eichhorn, Sebastian Mizera

Publication date 10 July 2014

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1311.2530

zbMATH Keywords

causal setquantum gravityquantum spacetimerandom walkspectral dimension

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Sums of independent random variables; random walks (60G50) Quantum field theory on curved space or space-time backgrounds (81T20) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45) Space-time singularities, cosmic censorship, etc. (83C75) Relativistic gravitational theories other than Einstein's, including asymmetric field theories (83D05)

Abstract: We evaluate the spectral dimension in causal set quantum gravity by simulating random walks on causal sets. In contrast to other approaches to quantum gravity, we find an increasing spectral dimension at small scales. This observation can be connected to the non-locality of causal set theory that is deeply rooted in its fundamentally Lorentzian nature. Based on its large-scale behaviour, we conjecture that the spectral dimension can serve as a tool to distinguish causal sets that approximate manifolds from those that do not. As a new tool to probe quantum spacetime in different quantum gravity approaches, we introduce a novel dimensional estimator, the causal spectral dimension, based on the meeting probability of two random walkers, which respect the causal structure of the quantum spacetime. We discuss a causal-set example, where the spectral dimension and the causal spectral dimension differ, due to the existence of a preferred foliation.

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