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Four-dimensional CDT with toroidal topology

High Energy Physics - Theory 2017-09-13 v1 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Physics - Lattice

Abstract

3+1 dimensional Causal Dynamical Triangulations (CDT) describe a quantum theory of fluctuating geometries without the introduction of a background geometry. If the topology of space is constrained to be that of a three-dimensional torus we show that the system will fluctuate around a dynamically formed background geometry which can be understood from a simple minisuperspace action which contains both a classical part and a quantum part. We determine this action by integrating out degrees of freedom in the full model, as well as by transfer matrix methods.

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@article{arxiv.1705.07653,
  title  = {Four-dimensional CDT with toroidal topology},
  author = {Jan Ambjørn and Jakub Gizbert-Studnicki and Andrzej Görlich and Kevin Grosvenor and Jerzy Jurkiewicz},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1705.07653},
  year   = {2017}
}

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28 pages, 15 figures

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