Universal homogeneous causal sets

DOI10.1063/1.2147607MaRDI QIDQ3438708zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Manfred Droste

Publication date 16 May 2007

Published in Journal of Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0510118

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45)

Abstract: Causal sets are particular partially ordered sets which have been proposed as a basic model for discrete space-time in quantum gravity. We show that the class C of all countable past-finite causal sets contains a unique causal set (U,<) which is universal (i.e., any member of C can be embedded into (U,<)) and homogeneous (i.e., (U,<) has maximal degree of symmetry). Moreover, (U,<) can be constructed both probabilistically and explicitly. In contrast, the larger class of all countable causal sets does not contain a universal object.

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