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Causal sites as quantum geometry

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2009-11-10 v2 Category Theory

Abstract

We propose a structure called a causal site to use as a setting for quantum geometry, replacing the underlying point set. The structure has an interesting categorical form, and a natural "tangent 2-bundle," analogous to the tangent bundle of a smooth manifold. Examples with reasonable finiteness conditions have an intrinsic geometry, which can approximate classical solutions to general relativity. We propose an approach to quantization of causal sites as well.

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@article{arxiv.gr-qc/0410104,
  title  = {Causal sites as quantum geometry},
  author = {J. Daniel Christensen and Louis Crane},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/0410104},
  year   = {2009}
}

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21 pages, 3 eps figures; v2: added references; to appear in JMP