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二维因果集量子引力模型:连续统的出现

A 2D model of Causal Set Quantum Gravity: The emergence of the continuum

Graham Brightwell, Joe Henson, Sumati Surya

摘要:

量子引力的非微扰理论不可避免地包含了在大尺度下无法与物理上合理的时空相类似的结构。通常,这些配置是熵占主导地位,并构成障碍,以获得所需的经典极限。我们研究这个“熵问题”的因果集量子引力模型对应的离散化的二维时空。利用偏序理论的结果,我们证明了在大体积或连续极限下,其配分函数由近似于二维Minkowski空间区域的因果集所支配.这种因果集量子引力模型因此克服了熵问题,并预言了物理上合理的几何的出现。

英文摘要:

Non-perturbative theories of quantum gravity inevitably include configurations that fail to resemble physically reasonable spacetimes at large scales. Often, these configurations are entropically dominant and pose an obstacle to obtaining the desired classical limit. We examine this "entropy problem" in a model of causal set quantum gravity corresponding to a discretisation of 2D spacetimes. Using results from the theory of partial orders we show that, in the large volume or continuum limit, its partition function is dominated by causal sets which approximate to a region of 2D Minkowski space. This model of causal set quantum gravity thus overcomes the entropy problem and predicts the emergence of a physically reasonable geometry.

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