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Combinatorial Quantum Gravity: Geometry from Random Bits

High Energy Physics - Theory 2017-10-25 v3 Statistical Mechanics General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

I propose a quantum gravity model in which geometric space emerges from random bits in a quantum phase transition driven by the combinatorial Ollivier-Ricci curvature and corresponding to the condensation of short cycles in random graphs. This quantum critical point defines quantum gravity non-perturbatively. In the ordered geometric phase at large distances the action reduces to the standard Einstein-Hilbert term.

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@article{arxiv.1610.05934,
  title  = {Combinatorial Quantum Gravity: Geometry from Random Bits},
  author = {Carlo A. Trugenberger},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1610.05934},
  year   = {2017}
}

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Revised version to appear in JHEP

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