The geometry of small causal cones

DOI10.1088/1361-6382/AA68B7MaRDI QIDQ5351991zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors I. Jubb

Publication date 31 August 2017

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1611.00785

zbMATH Keywords

scalar fieldcausal setspacetime geometrycausal cone

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Partial orders, general (06A06) Equations of motion in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C10) Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Geometrodynamics and the holographic principle (83E05)

Abstract: We derive a formula for the spacetime volume of a small causal cone. We use this formula within the context of causal set theory to construct causal set expressions for certain geometric quantities relating to a spacetime with a spacelike hypersurface. We also consider a scalar field on the causal set, and obtain causal set expressions relating to its normal derivatives with respect to the hypersurface.

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