Spikes and spines in 4D Lorentzian simplicial quantum gravity

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العنوان: Spikes and spines in 4D Lorentzian simplicial quantum gravity
المؤلفون: Borissova, Johanna, Dittrich, Bianca, Qu, Dongxue, Schiffer, Marc
سنة النشر: 2024
المجموعة: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
High Energy Physics - Theory
مصطلحات موضوعية: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology, High Energy Physics - Theory
الوصف: Simplicial approaches to quantum gravity such as quantum Regge calculus and spin foams include configurations where bulk edges can become arbitrarily large while the boundary edges are kept small. Spikes and spines are prime examples for such configurations. They pose a significant challenge for a desired continuum limit, for which the average lengths of edges ought to become very small. Here we investigate spike and spine configurations in four-dimensional Lorentzian quantum Regge calculus. We find that the expectation values of arbitrary powers of the bulk length are finite. To that end, we explore new types of asymptotic regimes for the Regge amplitudes, in which some of the edges are much larger than the remaining ones. The amplitudes simplify considerably in such asymptotic regimes and the geometric interpretation of the resulting expressions involves a dimensional reduction, which might have applications to holography.
Comment: v1: 32 pages, 13 figures
نوع الوثيقة: Working Paper
URL الوصول: http://arxiv.org/abs/2407.13601
رقم الأكسشن: edsarx.2407.13601
قاعدة البيانات: arXiv