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A Geometric Renormalisation Group in Discrete Quantum Space-Time

arXiv:gr-qc/0110077 · doi:10.1063/1.1619579

Abstract

We model quantum space-time on the Planck scale as dynamical networks of elementary relations or time dependent random graphs, the time dependence being an effect of the underlying dynamical network laws. We formulate a kind of geometric renormalisation group on these (random) networks leading to a hierarchy of increasingly coarse-grained networks of overlapping lumps. We provide arguments that this process may generate a fixed limit phase, representing our continuous space-time on a mesoscopic or macroscopic scale, provided that the underlying discrete geometry is critical in a specific sense (geometric long range order). Our point of view is corroborated by a series of analytic and numerical results, which allow to keep track of the geometric changes, taking place on the various scales of the resolution of space-time. Of particular conceptual importance are the notions of dimension of such random systems on the various scales and the notion of geometric criticality.

Latex, 39 pages, 6 figures, additional analytic and numerical results concerning the analysis and characteristics of fixed point behavior and criticality mainly in sect.5.2, some new references

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