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arXiv 0905.0017gr-qc
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空间结构从因果集的涌现

Emergence of spatial structure from causal sets

David Rideout, Petros Wallden

摘要:

有许多迹象表明,一个离散的底层下连续时空。任何对量子引力的基本离散方法都必须提供一些处方,说明连续性如何从潜在的离散性中出现。因果集的方法,其中的基本关系是基于因果关系,发现它很容易重现类时距离,但有一个更困难的时间与空间距离,由于独特的组合洛伦兹不变性和离散性的方法。我们描述了一种方法来推导空间距离的因果集。此外,我们勾勒出如何可能使用一个重要的成分在推导空间距离,“$n$ -链接”,推断是否一个给定的因果集可能忠实地嵌入到一个连续时空。

英文摘要:

There are numerous indications that a discrete substratum underlies continuum spacetime. Any fundamentally discrete approach to quantum gravity must provide some prescription for how continuum properties emerge from the underlying discreteness. The causal set approach, in which the fundamental relation is based upon causality, finds it easy to reproduce timelike distances, but has a more difficult time with spatial distance, due to the unique combination of Lorentz invariance and discreteness within that approach. We describe a method to deduce spatial distances from a causal set. In addition, we sketch how one might use an important ingredient in deducing spatial distance, the `$n$-link', to deduce whether a given causal set is likely to faithfully embed into a continuum spacetime.

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