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Baby Universes Revisited

High Energy Physics - Theory 2012-01-24 v1 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Physics - Lattice

Abstract

The behaviour of baby universes has been an important ingredient in understanding and quantifying non-critical string theory or, equivalently, models of two-dimensional Euclidean quantum gravity coupled to matter. Within a regularized description based on dynamical triangulations, we amend an earlier conjecture by Jain and Mathur on the scaling behaviour of genus-gg surfaces containing particular baby universe `necks', and perform a nontrivial numerical check on our improved conjecture.

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@article{arxiv.1110.3998,
  title  = {Baby Universes Revisited},
  author = {J. Ambjorn and J. Barkley and T. Budd and R. Loll},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1110.3998},
  year   = {2012}
}

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10 pages, 1 figure