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Dark matter and dark energy in combinatorial quantum gravity

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2024-09-17 v1 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We point out that dark matter and dark energy arise naturally in a recently proposed model of combinatorial quantum gravity. Dark energy is due to the ground-state curvature at finite coupling, dark matter arises from allotropy in the discrete structure of space-time. The stable structure of the space-time "crystal" represents the curved background, the coexisting metastable allotropes of higher curvature and energy are natural candidates for dark matter.

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@article{arxiv.2409.09385,
  title  = {Dark matter and dark energy in combinatorial quantum gravity},
  author = {Carlo A. Trugenberger},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2409.09385},
  year   = {2024}
}
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