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.
Cite
@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}
}
Comments
28 pages, 15 figures