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Generalized causal dynamical triangulations (generalized CDT) is a model of two-dimensional quantum gravity in which a limited number of spatial topology changes is allowed to occur. We solve the model at the discretized level using…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-07-22 Jan Ambjorn , Timothy G. Budd

We define a new scaling limit of matrix models which can be related to the method of causal dynamical triangulations (CDT) used when investigating two-dimensional quantum gravity. Surprisingly, the new scaling limit of the matrix models is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-12-18 J. Ambjorn , R. Loll , Y. Watabiki , W. Westra , S. Zohren

Causal dynamical triangulations (CDT) can be used as a regularization of quantum gravity. In two dimensions the theory can be solved anlytically, even before the cut-off is removed and one can study in detail how to take the continuum…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-20 J. Ambjorn , R. Loll , Y. Watabiki , W. Westra , S. Zohren

In the approach of Causal Dynamical Triangulations (CDT), quantum gravity is obtained as a scaling limit of a non-perturbative path integral over space-times whose causal structure plays a crucial role in the construction. After some…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-11-30 L. Glaser , R. Loll

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

The formalism of Causal Dynamical Triangulations (CDT) attempts to provide a non-perturbative regularization of quantum gravity, viewed as an ordinary quantum field theory. In two dimensions one can solve the lattice theory analytically and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-15 J. Ambjorn , A. Ipsen

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…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-12-03 Jakub Gizbert-Studnicki

We define multicritical CDT models of 2d quantum gravity and show that they are a special case of multicritical generalized CDT models obtained from the new scaling limit, the so-called "classical" scaling limit, of matrix models. The…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-04 Jan Ambjorn , Lisa Glaser , Andrzej Gorlich , Yuki Sato

This topical review gives a comprehensive overview and assessment of recent results in Causal Dynamical Triangulations (CDT), a modern formulation of lattice gravity, whose aim is to obtain a theory of quantum gravity nonperturbatively from…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-01-08 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) is a lattice theory where aspects of quantum gravity can be studied. Two-dimensional CDT can be solved analytically and the continuum (quantum) Hamiltonian obtained. In this article we show that this…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-15 Jan Ambjorn , Lisa Glaser , Yuki Sato , Yoshiyuki Watabiki

We search for a continuum limit in the causal dynamical triangulation (CDT) approach to quantum gravity by determining the change in lattice spacing using two independent methods. The two methods yield similar results that may indicate how…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-05-25 Jan Ambjorn , Daniel Coumbe , Jakub Gizbert-Studnicki , Jerzy Jurkiewicz

Causal Dynamical Triangulations (CDT) is a proposal for a theory of quantum gravity, which implements a path-integral quantization of gravity as the continuum limit of a sum over piecewise flat spacetime geometries. We use Monte Carlo…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-06-25 J. Ambjorn , S. Jordan , J. Jurkiewicz , R. Loll

"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

The four dimensional Causal Dynamical Triangulations (CDT) approach to quantum gravity is already more than ten years old theory with numerous unprecedented predictions such as non-trivial phase structure of gravitational field and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-12-31 Jakub Mielczarek

We introduce a new matrix model that describes Causal Dynamical Triangulations (CDT) in two dimensions. In order to do so, we introduce a new, simpler definition of 2D CDT and show it to be equivalent to the old one. The model makes use of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-06-28 Dario Benedetti , Joe Henson

The Causal Dynamical Triangulation model of quantum gravity (CDT) is a proposition to evaluate the path integral over space-time geometries using a lattice regularization with a discrete proper time and geometries realized as simplicial…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-15 J. Ambjorn , J. Gizbert-Studnicki , A. T. Goerlich , J. Jurkiewicz , 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

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 powerful strategy to treat quantum field theories beyond perturbation theory is by putting them on a lattice. However, the dynamical and symmetry structure of general relativity have for a long time stood in the way of a well-defined…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-01-18 J. Ambjørn , R. Loll
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