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Characteristics of the new phase in CDT

The approach of 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 [Formula: see text] and relate some of its characteristics to the presence of singula...

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Autores principales: Ambjørn, J., Gizbert-Studnicki, J., Görlich, A., Jurkiewicz, J., Klitgaard, N., Loll, R.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5347531/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28344506
http://dx.doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-017-4710-3
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Sumario:The approach of 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 [Formula: see text] and relate some of its characteristics to the presence of singular vertices of very high order. The transition lines separating this phase from the “time-collapsed” B-phase and the de Sitter phase [Formula: see text] are of great interest when searching for physical scaling limits. The work presented here sheds light on the mechanisms behind these transitions. First, we study how the B–[Formula: see text] transition signal depends on the volume fixing implemented in the simulations, and find results compatible with the previously determined second-order character of the transition. The transition persists in a transfer matrix formulation, where the system’s time extension is taken to be minimal. Second, we relate the new [Formula: see text] –[Formula: see text] transition to the appearance of singular vertices, which leads to a direct physical interpretation in terms of a breaking of the homogeneity and isotropy observed in the de Sitter phase when crossing from [Formula: see text] to the bifurcation phase [Formula: see text] .