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Geometrical properties of spacetime are difficult to study in nonperturbative approaches to quantum gravity like Causal Dynamical Triangulations (CDT), where one uses simplicial manifolds to define the gravitational path integral, instead…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-06-06 Agustín Silva , Jesse van der Duin

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

A major unsolved problem in theoretical physics is to reconcile the classical theory of general relativity with quantum mechanics. These lectures will deal with an attempt to describe quantum gravity as a path integral over geometries known…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-20 Jan Ambjorn , Jerzy Jurkiewicz , Renate Loll

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

Quantum Gravity by Causal Dynamical Triangulation has over the last few years emerged as a serious contender for a nonperturbative description of the theory. It is a nonperturbative implementation of the sum-over-histories, which relies on…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-04-05 J. Ambjorn , J. Jurkiewicz , R. Loll

To facilitate the search for a continuum limit of causal dynamical triangulations, Ambjorn, Coumbe, Gizbert-Studnicki, and Jurkiewicz recently reported measurements of the lattice spacing as a function of the bare couplings. Although these…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-04-08 Joshua H. Cooperman

We discuss the algorithmic problem of minimal coupling gauge fields of the Yang-Mills type to Quantum Gravity in the approach known as Causal Dynamical Triangulations (CDT) as a step towards studying, ultimately, systems of gravity coupled…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2021-12-08 Alessandro Candido , Giuseppe Clemente , Massimo D'Elia , Federico Rottoli

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

Topological gravity is the reduction of general relativity to flat space-times. A lattice model describing topological gravity is developed starting from a Hamiltonian lattice version of $B\w F$ theory. The extra symmetries not present in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Jose A. Zapata

In a novel application of the tools of topological data analysis (TDA) to nonperturbative quantum gravity, we introduce a new class of observables that allows us to assess whether quantum spacetime really resembles a ``quantum foam" near…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-10-08 J. van der Duin , R. Loll , M. Schiffer , A. Silva

The Causal Dynamical Triangulation model of quantum gravity (CDT) has a transfer matrix, relating spatial geometries at adjacent (discrete lattice) times. The transfer matrix uniquely determines the theory. We show that the measurements of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-02-10 Jan Ambjorn , Jakub Gizbert-Studnicki , Andrzej Görlich , Jerzy Jurkiewicz

Flatness -- the absence of spacetime curvature -- is a well-understood property of macroscopic, classical spacetimes in general relativity. The same cannot be said about the concepts of curvature and flatness in nonperturbative quantum…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-01-12 J. Brunekreef , R. Loll

Causal Dynamical Triangulations is a background independent approach to quantum gravity. In this paper we introduce a phenomenological transfer matrix model, where at each time step a reduced set of quantum states is used. The states are…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-02-06 Andrzej Görlich

We present a possibility of coupling a point-like, non-singular, mass distribution to four-dimensional quantum gravity in the nonperturbative setting of causal dynamical triangulations (CDT). In order to provide a point of comparison for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-09-16 Igor Khavkine , Renate Loll , Paul Reska

We show recent results of the application of spectral analysis in the setting of the Monte Carlo approach to Quantum Gravity known as Causal Dynamical Triangulations (CDT), discussing the behavior of the lowest lying eigenvalues of the…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2019-12-25 Giuseppe Clemente , Massimo D'Elia , Alessandro Ferraro

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

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 this short note we review a recently found formulation of two-dimensional causal quantum gravity defined through Causal Dynamical Triangulations and stochastic quantization. This procedure enables one to extract the nonperturbative…

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

The method of four-dimensional Causal Dynamical Triangulations provides a background-independent definition of the sum over geometries in quantum gravity, in the presence of a positive cosmological constant. We present the evidence…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Ambjorn , J. Jurkiewicz , R. Loll

We perform a detailed investigation of the phase structure and the semiclassical effective action of (2+1)-dimensional Causal Dynamical Triangulations (CDT) quantum gravity using computer simulations. On the one hand, we study the effect of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-10-19 Joren Brunekreef , Dániel Németh