Symmetry-breaking and zero-one laws
arXiv:1909.06070 · doi:10.1088/1361-6382/ab81cd
Abstract
We offer further evidence that discreteness of the sort inherent in a causal set cannot, in and of itself, serve to break Poincar{é} invariance. In particular we prove that a Poisson sprinkling of Minkowski spacetime cannot endow spacetime with a distinguished spatial or temporal orientation, or with a distinguished lattice of spacetime points, or with a distinguished lattice of timelike directions (corresponding respectively to breakings of reflection-invariance, translation-invariance, and Lorentz invariance). Along the way we provide a proof from first principles of the zero-one law on which our new arguments are based.
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