Causal Sets: Quantum gravity from a fundamentally discrete spacetime
arXiv:1001.4041 · doi:10.1088/1742-6596/222/1/012053
Abstract
In order to construct a quantum theory of gravity, we may have to abandon certain assumptions we were making. In particular, the concept of spacetime as a continuum substratum is questioned. Causal Sets is an attempt to construct a quantum theory of gravity starting with a fundamentally discrete spacetime. In this contribution we review the whole approach, focusing on some recent developments in the kinematics and dynamics of the approach.
10 pages, review of causal sets based on talk given at the 1st MCCQG conference
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