Gravity and matter in causal set theory
dc.contributor.author | Sverdlov, Roman M. | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Bombelli, Luca | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2010-03-23T15:24:31Z | |
dc.date.available | 2010-03-23T15:24:31Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2009 | en_US |
dc.identifier.citation | Sverdlov, Roman; Bombelli, Luca (2009). "Gravity and matter in causal set theory." Classical and Quantum Gravity 26(7): 75011. <http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/65074> | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 0264-9381 | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/65074 | |
dc.description.abstract | The goal of this paper is to propose an approach to the formulation of dynamics for causal sets and coupled matter fields. We start from the continuum version of the action for a Klein Gordon field coupled to gravity, and rewrite it first using quantities that have a direct correspondent in the case of a causal set, namely volumes, causal relations and timelike lengths, as variables to describe the geometry. In this step, the local Lagrangian density ##IMG## [http://ej.iop.org/images/0264-9381/26/7/075011/cqg297258ieqn1.gif] for a set of fields f is recast into a quasilocal expression ##IMG## [http://ej.iop.org/images/0264-9381/26/7/075011/cqg297258ieqn2.gif] that depends on pairs of causally related points p ##IMG## [http://ej.iop.org/icons/Entities/pr.gif] {pr} q and is a function of the values of f in the Alexandrov set defined by those points, and whose limit as p and q approach a common point x is ##IMG## [http://ej.iop.org/images/0264-9381/26/7/075011/cqg297258ieqn3.gif]. We then describe how to discretize ##IMG## [http://ej.iop.org/images/0264-9381/26/7/075011/cqg297258ieqn4.gif] and use it to define a causal-set-based action. | en_US |
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dc.publisher | IOP Publishing | en_US |
dc.title | Gravity and matter in causal set theory | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevel | Physics | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbtoplevel | Science | en_US |
dc.description.peerreviewed | Peer Reviewed | en_US |
dc.description.bitstreamurl | http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/65074/2/cqg9_7_075011.pdf | |
dc.identifier.source | Classical and Quantum Gravity | en_US |
dc.owningcollname | Interdisciplinary and Peer-Reviewed |
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