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We review some recent results from the causal dynamical triangulation (CDT) approach to quantum gravity. We review recent observations of dimensional reduction at a number of previously undetermined points in the parameter space of CDT, and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-10-13 Jan Ambjorn , Daniel Coumbe , Jakub Gizbert-Studnicki , Jerzy Jurkiewicz

The formalism of causal dynamical triangulations (CDT) provides us with a non-perturbatively defined model of quantum gravity, where the sum over histories includes only causal space-time histories. Path integrals of CDT and their continuum…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 J. Ambjorn , R. Loll , W. Westra , S. Zohren

"Causal Dynamical Triangulations" (CDT) represent a lattice regularization of the sum over spacetime histories, providing us with a non-perturbative formulation of quantum gravity. The ultraviolet fixed points of the lattice theory can be…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-15 J. Ambjorn , A. Goerlich , J. Jurkiewicz , R. Loll

Causal Dynamical Triangulations (CDT) is a methodology to define and compute the gravitational path integral, whose aim is a fully fledged nonperturbative quantum field theory of gravity and spacetime. Analogous to lattice formulations of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-08 J. Ambjørn , R. Loll

Causal Dynamical Triangulations (CDT) are a concrete attempt to define a nonperturbative path integral for quantum gravity. We present strong evidence that the lattice theory has a second-order phase transition line, which can potentially…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-12-01 J. Ambjorn , S. Jordan , J. Jurkiewicz , R. Loll

A novel continuum theory of two-dimensional quantum gravity, based on a version of Causal Dynamical Triangulations which incorporates topology change, has recently been formulated as a genuine string field theory in zero-dimensional target…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 J. Ambjorn , R. Loll , Y. Watabiki , W. Westra , S. Zohren

The spin-statistics connection, quantum gravity and other physical considerations suggest that classical space-time topology is not an immutable attribute and can change in quantum physics. The implementation of topology change using…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-11-30 M. Asorey , A. P. Balachandran , G. Marmo , I. P. Costa e Silva , A. R. de Queiroz , P. Teotonio-Sobrinho , S. Vaidya

An outstanding challenge for models of non-perturbative quantum gravity is the consistent formulation and quantitative evaluation of physical phenomena in a regime where geometry and matter are strongly coupled. After developing appropriate…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 D. Benedetti , R. Loll

It is shown that generalized CDT, the two-dimensional theory of quantum gravity, constructed as a scaling limit from so-called causal dynamical triangulations, can be obtained from a cubic matrix model. It involves taking a new scaling…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-06-01 Jan Ambjorn

Previous work has shown that the macroscopic structure of the theory of quantum gravity defined by causal dynamical triangulations (CDT) is compatible with that of a de Sitter universe. After emphasizing the strictly nonperturbative nature…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-05-09 J. Ambjorn , A. Gorlich , J. Jurkiewicz , R. Loll , J. Gizbert-Studnicki , T. Trzesniewski

We introduce a generalized version of the Causal Dynamical Triangulations (CDT) formulation of quantum gravity, in which the regularized, triangulated path integral histories retain their causal properties, but do not have a preferred…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-08-28 S. Jordan , R. Loll

The role of topology in elementary quantum physics is discussed in detail. It is argued that attributes of classical spatial topology emerge from properties of state vectors with suitably smooth time evolution. Equivalently, they emerge…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-28 A. P. Balachandran , G. Bimonte , G. Marmo , A. Simoni

Curvature is a key notion in General Relativity, characterizing the local physical properties of spacetime. By contrast, the concept of curvature has received scant attention in nonperturbative quantum gravity. One may even wonder whether…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-06-27 R. Loll

A model of simplicial quantum gravity in three dimensions is investigated numerically based on the technique of the dynamical triangulation (DT). We are concerned with the surfaces appearing on boundaries (i.e., sections) of…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2009-10-30 H. S. Egawa , N. Tsuda

Causal Dynamical Triangulations (CDT) is a lattice approach to quantum gravity. CDT has rich phase structure, including a semiclassical phase consistent with Einstein's general relativity. Some of the observed phase transitions are second…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-04-04 Jakub Gizbert-Studnicki

A model of simplicial quantum gravity in three dimensions(3D) was investigated numerically based on the technique of dynamical triangulation (DT). We are concerned with the genus of surfaces appearing on boundaries (i.e., sections) of a 3D…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2009-10-30 H. S. Egawa , N. Tsuda

We show that the noncritical string field theory developed from two-dimensional quantum gravity in the framework of causal dynamical triangulations can be viewed as arising through a stochastic quantization. This requires that the proper…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-05 J. Ambjorn , R. Loll , W. Westra , S. Zohren

We extend the 2 dimensional Causal Dynamical Triangulation (CDT) model from the usual model of closed string to the one of open-closed string. The matrix-vector model describing the loop gas model is modified so as to possess the nature of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-01-16 Hiroshi Kawabe

Causal Dynamical Triangulations provide a non-perturbative regularization of a theory of quantum gravity. We describe how this approach connects with the asymptotic safety program and Ho\vrava-Lifshitz gravity theory, and present the most…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-05-30 J. Ambjorn , A. Goerlich , J. Jurkiewicz , R. Loll

In a natural extension of the relativity principle we argue that a quantum theory of gravity involves two fundamental scales associated with both dynamical space-time as well as dynamical momentum space. This view of quantum gravity is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-19 Laurent Freidel , Robert G. Leigh , Djordje Minic