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Phase diagram of four-dimensional dynamical triangulations with a boundary

High Energy Physics - Lattice 2009-10-31 v1

Abstract

We report on simulations of DT simplicial gravity for manifolds with the topology of the 4-disk. We find evidence for four phases in a two-dimensional parameter space. In two of these the boundary plays no dynamical role and the geometries are equivalent to those observed earlier for the sphere S4S^4. In another phase the boundary is maximal and the quantum geometry degenerates to a one dimensional branched polymer. In contrast we provide evidence that the fourth phase is effectively three-dimensional. We find discontinuous phase transitions at all the phase boundaries.

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@article{arxiv.hep-lat/0008015,
  title  = {Phase diagram of four-dimensional dynamical triangulations with a boundary},
  author = {Simeon Warner and Simon Catterall},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-lat/0008015},
  year   = {2009}
}

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13 pages, latex