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We consider the fractal characteristic of the quantum mechanical paths and we obtain for any universal class of fractons labeled by the Hausdorff dimension defined within the interval 1$ $$ < $$ $$h$$ $$ <$$ $$ 2$, a fractal distribution…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 Wellington da Cruz

We study phases and fractal structures of three-dimensional simplicial quantum gravity by the Monte-Carlo method. After measuring the surface area distribution (SAD) which is the three-dimensional analog of the loop length distribution…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2009-10-28 Hiroyuki Hagura , Noritsugu Tsuda , Tetsuyuki Yukawa

Antoniadis, Mazur and Mottola (AMM) two years ago computed the intrinsic Hausdorff dimension of spacetime at the infrared fixed point of the quantum conformal factor in 4D Gravity. The fractal dimension was determined by the coefficient of…

General Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Carlos Castro

The relativity of cosmic time is developed within the framework of Cosmological Relativity in five dimensions of space, time and velocity. A general linearized metric element is defined to have the form $ds^2 = (1+\phi) c^2 dt^2 - dr^2 +…

General Physics · Physics 2016-05-30 Firmin J. Oliveira

We review the status of understanding of the fractal structure of the quantum spacetime of 2d gravity coupled to conformal matter with c <= 1, with emphasis put on the results obtained last year.

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2009-10-31 K. N. Anagnostopoulos

A theory of time and space with fractional dimensions (FD) of time and space ($d_{\alpha}, \alpha=t,{\bf r})$ defined on multifractal sets is proposed. The FD is determined (using principle of minimum the functionals of FD) by the energy…

Space Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Leonid Ya. Kobelev

First, let the fractal dimension D=n(integer)+d(decimal), so the fractal dimensional matrix was represented by a usual matrix adds a special decimal row (column). We researched that mathematics, for example, the fractal dimensional linear…

General Physics · Physics 2007-07-03 Yi-Fang Chang

In the framework of the two-form gravity, which is classically equivalent to the Einstein gravity, the one-loop effective potential for the conformal factor of metric is calculated in the finite volume and in the finite temperature by…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-26 Miyuki KATSUKI , Shin'ichi NOJIRI , Akio SUGAMOTO

The emergence of fractal features in the microscopic structure of space-time is a common theme in many approaches to quantum gravity. In this work we carry out a detailed renormalization group study of the spectral dimension $d_s$ and walk…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-30 Martin Reuter , Frank Saueressig

The fractal or Hausdorff dimension is a measure of roughness (or smoothness) for time series and spatial data. The graph of a smooth, differentiable surface indexed in $\mathbb{R}^d$ has topological and fractal dimension $d$. If the surface…

Methodology · Statistics 2015-03-17 Tilmann Gneiting , Hana Ševčíková , Donald B. Percival

It is generally believed that any quantum theory of gravity should have a generic feature --- a quantum of length. We provide a physical ansatz to obtain an effective non-local metric tensor starting from the standard metric tensor such…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-04-08 T. Padmanabhan , Sumanta Chakraborty , Dawood Kothawala

A cluster algorithm formulated in continuous (imaginary) time is presented for Ising models in a transverse field. It works directly with an infinite number of time-slices in the imaginary time direction, avoiding the necessity to take this…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2007-05-23 H. Rieger , N. Kawashima

We consider the fractal characteristic of the quantum mechanical paths and we obtain for any universal class of fractons labeled by the Hausdorff dimension defined within the interval 1$ $$ < $$ $$h$$ $$ <$$ $$ 2$, a fractal distribution…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Wellington da Cruz

In quantum systems with many degrees of freedom the replica method is a useful tool to study the entanglement of arbitrary spatial regions. We apply it in a way which allows them to back-react. As a consequence, they become dynamical…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-02-02 Ferdinando Gliozzi

We provide evidence that the Hausdorff dimension is 4 and the spectral dimension is 2 for two-dimensional quantum gravity coupled the matter with a central charge $c \leq 1$. For $c > 1$ the Hausdorff dimension and the spectral dimension…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2009-10-28 J. Ambjorn , J. Jurkiewicz , Y. Watabiki

The space time that is used in relativistic Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Field Theory is the Minkowski space time. Yet, as pointed out by several scholars this classical space time is incompatible with the Heisenberg Uncertainity…

General Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 B. G. Sidharth

In an extension of earlier work we investigate the behaviour of two-dimensional Lorentzian quantum gravity under coupling to a conformal field theory with c>1. This is done by analyzing numerically a system of eight Ising models…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2009-10-31 J. Ambjorn , K. N. Anagnostopoulos , R. Loll

In this paper we perform the calculation of the spectral dimension of spacetime in 4d quantum gravity using the Barrett-Crane (BC) spinfoam model. We realize this considering a very simple decomposition of the 4d spacetime already used in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-04 Elena Magliaro , Claudio Perini , Leonardo Modesto

We consider the conformal bootstrap for spacetime dimension $1<d<2$. We determine bounds on operator dimensions and compare our results with various theoretical and numerical models, in particular with resummed $\epsilon$-expansion and…

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