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Minkowski space is locally the Noldus limit of a Poisson process causet

Mathematical Physics 2016-08-17 v1 Metric Geometry math.MP

Abstract

A poisson process PλP_{\lambda} on Rd\mathbb{R}^{d} with causal structure inherited from the the usual Minkowski metric on Rd\mathbb{R}^{d} has a normalised discrete causal distance Dλ(x,y)D_{\lambda}(x,y) given by the height of the longest causal chain normalised by λ1/dcd\lambda^{1/d}c_{d}. We prove that PλP_{\lambda} restricted to a compact set QQ converges in probability in the sense of Noldus to QQ with the Minkowksi metric.

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@article{arxiv.1603.09199,
  title  = {Minkowski space is locally the Noldus limit of a Poisson process causet},
  author = {Jan Cristina},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1603.09199},
  year   = {2016}
}