English

Light, Links and Causal Sets

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2010-11-02 v1 Statistical Mechanics High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

After sketching a context in which to seek observable signals of spatio-temporal discreteness, I briefly review the status of the causal set program for quantum gravity, concluding with a simple model for the field produced by a moving charge in a background causal set.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.0910.0673,
  title  = {Light, Links and Causal Sets},
  author = {Rafael D. Sorkin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0910.0673},
  year   = {2010}
}

Comments

plainTeX, 18 pages, no figures. Most current version is available at http://www.physics.syr.edu/~sorkin/some.papers/ (or wherever my home-page may be)

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