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从因果结构导出空间几何

Induced Spatial Geometry from Causal Structure

Astrid Eichhorn, Sumati Surya, Fleur Versteegen

摘要:

基于Hawking-King-McCarthy-Malament(HKMM)定理和由因果结构$(M,\prec)$和局部体积元$ε$重构时空几何的思想,我们在Cauchy超曲面$Σ$上仅用$(M,\prec)$和$ε$定义了一个单参数空间距离函数族.该参数对应于一个“中尺度”截止,当适当选择,提供了一个距离函数,近似诱导的空间距离函数,以领先的顺序。这承认一个简单的推广到离散模拟的柯西超曲面在因果集。对于连续时空近似的因果集,当中尺度远小于超曲面的外曲率尺度,但远大于离散尺度时,该距离函数接近连续诱导距离。我们验证了这些期望进行广泛的数值模拟的因果集近似简单的时空区域在2和3时空维度。

英文摘要:

Motivated by the Hawking-King-McCarthy-Malament (HKMM) theorem and the associated reconstruction of spacetime geometry from its causal structure $(M,\prec)$ and local volume element $ε$, we define a one-parameter family of spatial distance functions on a Cauchy hypersurface $Σ$ using only $(M,\prec)$ and $ε$. The parameter corresponds to a "mesoscale" cut-off which, when appropriately chosen, provides a distance function which approximates the induced spatial distance function to leading order. This admits a straightforward generalisation to the discrete analogue of a Cauchy hypersurface in a causal set. For causal sets which are approximated by continuum spacetimes, this distance function approaches the continuum induced distance when the mesoscale is much smaller than the scale of the extrinsic curvature of the hypersurface, but much larger than the discreteness scale. We verify these expectations by performing extensive numerical simulations of causal sets which are approximated by simple spacetime regions in 2 and 3 spacetime dimensions.

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