Gravitational binding in 4D dynamical triangulation
High Energy Physics - Lattice
2009-10-28 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
High Energy Physics - Theory
Abstract
In the dynamical triangulation model of four dimensional euclidean quantum gravity we investigate gravitational binding. Two scalar test particles (quenched approximation) have a positive binding energy, thereby showing that the model can represent gravitational attraction.
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@article{arxiv.hep-lat/9604023,
title = {Gravitational binding in 4D dynamical triangulation},
author = {Bas V. de Bakker and Jan Smit},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-lat/9604023},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
19 pages, LaTeX2e, version as accepted by Nucl Phys B