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Emergence of a 4D World from Causal Quantum Gravity

High Energy Physics - Theory 2010-04-06 v4 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

Causal Dynamical Triangulations in four dimensions provide a background-independent definition of the sum over geometries in nonperturbative quantum gravity, with a positive cosmological constant. We present evidence that a macroscopic four-dimensional world emerges from this theory dynamically.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0404156,
  title  = {Emergence of a 4D World from Causal Quantum Gravity},
  author = {J. Ambjorn and J. Jurkiewicz and R. Loll},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0404156},
  year   = {2010}
}

Comments

11 pages, 3 figures; some short clarifying comments added; final version to appear in Phys. Rev. Lett