CDT Quantum Toroidal Spacetimes: An Overview
Abstrak
Lattice formulations of gravity can be used to study non-perturbative aspects of quantum gravity. Causal Dynamical Triangulations (CDT) is a lattice model of gravity that has been used in this way. It has a built-in time foliation but is coordinate-independent in the spatial directions. The higher-order phase transitions observed in the model may be used to define a continuum limit of the lattice theory. Some aspects of the transitions are better studied when the topology of space is toroidal rather than spherical. In addition, a toroidal spatial topology allows us to understand more easily the nature of typical quantum fluctuations of the geometry. In particular, this topology makes it possible to use massless scalar fields that are solutions to Laplace’s equation with special boundary conditions as coordinates that capture the fractal structure of the quantum geometry. When such scalar fields are included as dynamical fields in the path integral, they can have a dramatic effect on the geometry.
Topik & Kata Kunci
Penulis (6)
Jan Ambjorn
Zbigniew Drogosz
Jakub Gizbert-Studnicki
Andrzej Görlich
Jerzy Jurkiewicz
Dániel Németh
Akses Cepat
- Tahun Terbit
- 2021
- Sumber Database
- DOAJ
- DOI
- 10.3390/universe7040079
- Akses
- Open Access ✓