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Correction terms for propagators and d'Alembertians due to spacetime discreteness

High Energy Physics - Theory 2015-09-22 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

The causal set approach to quantum gravity models spacetime as a discrete structure - a causal set. Recent research has led to causal set models for the retarded propagator for the Klein-Gordon equation and the d'Alembertian operator. These models can be compared to their continuum counterparts via a sprinkling process. It has been shown that the models agree exactly with the continuum quantities in the limit of an infinite sprinkling density - the continuum limit. This paper obtains the correction terms for these models for sprinkled causal sets with a finite sprinkling density. These correction terms are an important step towards testable differences between the continuum and discrete models that could provide evidence of spacetime discreteness.

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@article{arxiv.1411.2614,
  title  = {Correction terms for propagators and d'Alembertians due to spacetime discreteness},
  author = {Steven Johnston},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1411.2614},
  year   = {2015}
}

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19 pages. Minor updates to match published version