Quantum gravity on a torus
Abstract
Causal Dynamical Triangulations (CDT) is a non-perturbative lattice approach to quantum gravity where one assumes space-time foliation into spatial hyper-surfaces of fixed topology. Most of the CDT results were obtained for the spatial topology of the 3-sphere. It was shown that CDT has rich phase structure, including the semiclassical phase consistent with Einstein's general relativity. Some of the phase transitions were found to be second (or higher) order which makes a possibility of taking continuum limit viable. Here we present new results of changing the spatial topology to that of the 3-torus. We argue that the topology change does not change the phase structure nor the order of the phase transitions. Therefore CDT results seem to be universal independent of the topology chosen.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1912.00240,
title = {Quantum gravity on a torus},
author = {Jakub Gizbert-Studnicki},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1912.00240},
year = {2019}
}
Comments
To appear in Acta Physica Polonica B Proceedings Supplement. Presented at the 6th Conference of the Polish Society on Relativity. 4 pages, 1 figure