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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 aa on the edges of a Lorentzian square graph. We determine correlation functions and find a fixed relative uncertainty Δa/<a>=1/8\Delta a/<a>= 1/\sqrt{8} for the edge square-lengths relative to their expected value <a><a>. 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

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