Causal set d'Alembertians for various dimensions

Fay Dowker; Lisa Glaser

doi:10.1088/0264-9381/30/19/195016

Causal set d'Alembertians for various dimensions

Fay Dowker, Lisa Glaser

Theoretical high energy, astroparticle and gravitational physics

38 Citations (Scopus)

Abstract

We propose, for dimension d, a discrete Lorentz invariant operator on scalar fields that approximates the Minkowski spacetime scalar d'Alembertian. For each dimension, this gives rise to a scalar curvature estimator for causal sets, and thence to a proposal for a causal set action.

Original language	English
Article number	195016
Journal	Classical and Quantum Gravity
Volume	30
Issue number	19
Number of pages	10
ISSN	0264-9381
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1088/0264-9381/30/19/195016
Publication status	Published - 7 Oct 2013

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