Landau Theory of Causal Dynamical Triangulations
arXiv:2212.11043 · doi:10.1007/978-981-99-7681-2_93
Abstract
Understanding the continuum limit of a theory of discrete random geometries is a beautiful but difficult challenge. In this optic, we review here the insights that can be obtained for Causal Dynamical Triangulations (CDT) by employing the Landau approach to critical phenomena. In particular, concentrating on the cases of two and three dimensions, we will make the case that the configuration of the volume of spatial slices effectively plays the role of an order parameter, helping us to understand the phase structure of CDT. Moreover, consistency with numerical simulations of CDT provides hints that the effective field theory of the model lives in the space of theories invariant under foliation-preserving diffeomorphisms. Among such theories, Horava-Lifshitz gravity has the special status of being a perturbatively renormalizable theory, while General Relativity sits in a subspace with enhanced symmetry. In order to reach either of them, one would likely need to fine tune some of the parameters in the CDT action, or additional ones from some generalization thereof.
arXiv comment46 pages, 11 figures. Invited chapter for the Section "Causal Dynamical Triangulations" of the "Handbook of Quantum Gravity" (Eds. C. Bambi, L. Modesto and I.L. Shapiro, Springer Singapore, 2024, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-7681-2); slightly new perspective on old work in collaboration with Joe Henson ( 1410.0845 ) and James P. Ryan ( 1612.09533 )
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