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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

In these lectures we describe how a theory of quantum gravity may be constructed in terms of a lattice formulation based on so-called causal dynamical triangulations (CDT). We discuss how the continuum limit can be obtained and how to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-07-16 J. Ambjorn , A. Goerlich , J. Jurkiewicz , 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

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

The Causal Dynamical Triangulation (CDT) approach to quantum gravity is a lattice approximation to the gravitational path integral. Developed by Ambj\o{}rn, Jurkiewicz and Loll, it has yielded some important results, notably the emergence…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-03 Rajesh Kommu

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

Understanding the continuum limit of a theory of discrete random geometries is a beautiful but difficult challenge. In this optic, we review here the insights that can be obtained for Causal Dynamical Triangulations (CDT) by employing the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-01-09 Dario Benedetti

The aim of the causal dynamical triangulations approach is to define nonperturbatively a quantum theory of gravity as the continuum limit of a lattice-regularized model of dynamical geometry. My aim in this paper is to give a concise yet…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-03-09 Joshua H. Cooperman

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), a candidate theory of nonperturbative quantum gravity in 4D, turns out to have a rich phase structure. We investigate the recently discovered bifurcation phase $C_b$ and relate some of its…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-04-05 J. Ambjørn , J. Gizbert-Studnicki , A. Görlich , J. Jurkiewicz , N. Klitgaard , R. Loll

This article discusses the infrared and the (perspective) ultraviolet limits of four-dimensional Causal Dynamical Triangulations (CDT). CDT is a non-perturabtive and background-independent approach to quantization of Einstein's gravity,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-01-18 Jakub Gizbert-Studnicki

This article is an overview of the use of so-called Euclidean Dynamical Triangulations (EDT) and Causal Dynamical Triangulations (CDT) as lattice regularizations of quantum gravity. The lattice regularizations have been very successful in…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2023-06-28 Jan Ambjorn

The theory of causal dynamical triangulations (CDT) attempts to define a nonperturbative theory of quantum gravity as a sum over space-time geometries. One of the ingredients of the CDT framework is a global time foliation, which also plays…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-20 J. Ambjorn , A. Gorlich , S. Jordan , J. Jurkiewicz , R. Loll

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

Two-dimensional Causal Dynamical Triangulations provides a definition of the path integral for projectable two-dimensional Horava-Lifshitz quantum gravity. We solve the theory coupled to gauge fields.

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-10-02 J. Ambjorn , A. Ipsen

We investigate the transition between the phases $B$ and $C_b$ observed in four-dimensional Causal Dynamical Triangulations (CDT). We find that the critical properties of CDT with toroidal spatial topology are the same as earlier observed…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-06-24 Jan Ambjørn , Grzegorz Czelusta , Jakub Gizbert-Studnicki , Andrzej Görlich , Jerzy Jurkiewicz , Dániel Németh

Causal Dynamical Triangulations (CDT) is a non-perturbative quantisation of general relativity. Ho\v{r}ava-Lifshitz gravity on the other hand modifies general relativity to allow for perturbative quan- tisation. Past work has given rise to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-09-14 Lisa Glaser , Thomas P. Sotiriou , Silke Weinfurtner

This work focuses on the newly discovered bifurcation phase transition of CDT quantum gravity. We define various order parameters and investigate which is most suitable to study this transition in numerical simulations. By analyzing the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-03-09 D. N. Coumbe , J. Gizbert-Studnicki , J. Jurkiewicz

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