Order-invariant measures on fixed causal sets
Abstract
A causal set is a countably infinite poset in which every element is above finitely many others; causal sets are exactly the posets that have a linear extension with the order-type of the natural numbers -- we call such a linear extension a {\em natural extension}. We study probability measures on the set of natural extensions of a causal set, especially those measures having the property of {\em order-invariance}: if we condition on the set of the bottom elements of the natural extension, each possible ordering among these elements is equally likely. We give sufficient conditions for the existence and uniqueness of an order-invariant measure on the set of natural extensions of a causal set.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0901.0242,
title = {Order-invariant measures on fixed causal sets},
author = {Graham Brightwell and Malwina Luczak},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0901.0242},
year = {2012}
}
Comments
25 pages; to appear in Combinatorics, Probability and Computing