Quantum gravity on a square graph
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
2020-01-08 v1 High Energy Physics - Theory
Quantum Algebra
Abstract
We consider functional-integral quantisation of the moduli of all quantum metrics defined as square-lengths on the edges of a Lorentzian square graph. We determine correlation functions and find a fixed relative uncertainty for the edge square-lengths relative to their expected value . The expected value of the geometry is a rectangle where parallel edges have the same square-length. We compare with the simpler theory of a quantum scalar field on such a rectangular background. We also look at quantum metric fluctuations relative to a rectangular background, a theory which is finite and interpolates between the scalar theory and the fully fluctuating theory.
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@article{arxiv.1810.10831,
title = {Quantum gravity on a square graph},
author = {Shahn Majid},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1810.10831},
year = {2020}
}
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17 pages latex, 2 pdf figures