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The spectral dimension in 2D CDT gravity coupled to scalar fields

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2015-04-15 v1 High Energy Physics - Lattice High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

Causal Dynamical Triangulations (CDT) provide a non-perturbative formulation of Quantum Gravity assuming the existence of a global time foliation. In our earlier study we analyzed the effect of including dd copies of a massless scalar field in the two-dimensional CDT model with imaginary time. For d>1d > 1 we observed the formation of a "blob", somewhat similar to that observed in four-dimensional CDT without matter. In the two-dimensional case the "blob" has a Hausdorff dimension DH=3D_H=3. In this paper we study the spectral dimension DSD_S of the two-dimensional CDT-universe, both for d=0d = 0 (pure gravity) and d=4d = 4. We show that in both cases the spectral dimension is consistent with DS=2D_S = 2.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1412.3434,
  title  = {The spectral dimension in 2D CDT gravity coupled to scalar fields},
  author = {Jan Ambjørn and Andrzej Görlich and Jerzy Jurkiewicz and Hongguang Zhang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1412.3434},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

13 pages, 8 figures

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