The Cosmological Constant: A Categorical View
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Abstract: Some theoretic results related to the cosmological constant, obtained in the 80's and 90's of last century, are reviewed. These results exhibit some interesting underlying pattern when viewed from a category-theoretic perspective. In doing this, we illustrate how Baez and Dolan's Periodic Table of -tuply monoidal -categories can serve as a basic framework of a quantum spacetime structure. Explicitly, we show how Einstein gravity (with the cosmological constant turned on) emerges when we de-categorify certain -tuply monoidal -categories properly, as Crane proposed a long time ago. In particular, we find that some recent work on Vertex Operator Algebras and 4-manifolds fits nicely into this framework.
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