Path integral suppression of badly behaved causal sets
arXiv:2209.00327 · doi:10.1088/1361-6382/acc50c
Abstract
Causal set theory is a discrete model of spacetime that retains a notion of causal structure. We understand how to construct causal sets that approximate a given spacetime, but most causal sets are not at all manifold-like, and must be dynamically excluded if something like our universe is to emerge from the theory. Here we show that the most common of these "bad" causal sets, the Kleitman-Rothschild orders, are strongly suppressed in the gravitational path integral, and we provide evidence that a large class of other "bad" causal sets are similarly suppressed. It thus becomes plausible that continuum behavior could emerge naturally from causal set quantum theory.
arXiv comment10 pages, 2 figures
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