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We study the phase diagram of a one-dimensional balls-in-boxes (BIB) model that has been proposed as an effective model for the spatial-volume dynamics of (2+1)-dimensional causal dynamical triangulations (CDT). The latter is a statistical…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-05-02 Dario Benedetti , James P. Ryan

We extend the discrete Regge action of causal dynamical triangulations to include discrete versions of the curvature squared terms appearing in the continuum action of (2+1)-dimensional projectable Horava-Lifshitz gravity. Focusing on an…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-05-30 Christian Anderson , Steven Carlip , Joshua H. Cooperman , Petr Horava , Rajesh Kommu , Patrick R. Zulkowski

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) 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

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 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

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

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

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

3+1 dimensional Causal Dynamical Triangulations (CDT) describe a quantum theory of fluctuating geometries without the introduction of a background geometry. If the topology of space is constrained to be that of a three-dimensional torus we…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-09-13 Jan Ambjørn , Jakub Gizbert-Studnicki , Andrzej Görlich , Kevin Grosvenor , Jerzy Jurkiewicz

The role of topology change in a fundamental theory of quantum gravity is still a matter of debate. However, when regarding string theory as two-dimensional quantum gravity, topological fluctuations are essential. Here we present a third…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-02-08 J. Ambjorn , R. Loll , Y. Watabiki , W. Westra , S. Zohren

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

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

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

Three-dimensional Lorentzian quantum gravity, expressed as the continuum limit of a nonperturbative sum over spacetimes, is tantalizingly close to being amenable to analytical methods, and some of its properties have been described in terms…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-02-01 J. Brunekreef , R. Loll

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 investigate the interaction between matter and causal dynamical triangulations (CDT) in the context of two-dimensional quantum gravity. We focus on the Ising model coupled to CDT, contrasting this with Liouville gravity and the relation…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-05-09 Ryan Barouki , Henry Stubbs , John Wheater

Lattice formulations of gravity can be used to study non-perturbative aspects of quantum gravity. Causal Dynamical Triangulations (CDT) is a lattice model of gravity that has been used in this way. It has a built-in time foliation but is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-03-30 J. Ambjorn , Z. Drogosz , J. Gizbert-Studnicki , A. Görlich , J. Jurkiewicz , D. Nèmeth

We present evidence for a phase transition in a theory of 2D causal set quantum gravity which contains a dimensionless non-locality parameter $\epsilon \in (0,1]$. The transition is between a continuum phase and a crystalline phase,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-03 Sumati Surya

We describe the motivation behind the recent formulation of a nonperturbative path integral for Lorentzian quantum gravity defined through Causal Dynamical Triangulations (CDT). In the case of two dimensions the model is analytically…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Zohren