Three-dimensional simplicial gravity and combinatorics of group presentations

DOI10.1088/1126-6708/1998/07/010MaRDI QIDQ1588205zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors D. V. Boulatov

Publication date 3 December 2000

Published in Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9804078

zbMATH Keywords

combinatorial group theorysimplicial 3-manifoldssimplicial quantum gravity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Generators, relations, and presentations of groups (20F05) Differential topology (57R99) Lattice gravity, Regge calculus and other discrete methods in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C27) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45)

Abstract: We demonstrate how some problems arising in simplicial quantum gravity can be successfully addressed within the framework of combinatorial group theory. In particular, we argue that the number of simplicial 3-manifolds having a fixed homology type grows exponentially with the number of tetrahedra they are made of. We propose a model of 3D gravity interacting with scalar fermions, some restriction of which gives the 2-dimensional self-avoiding-loop-gas matrix model. We propose a qualitative picture of the phase structure of 3D simplicial gravity compatible with the numerical experiments and available analytical results.

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