Title

Simplicial Gravity in Dimension Greater than Two

Author(s)/Creator(s)

Simon Catterall, Syracuse UniversityFollow
G. Thorleifsson, Syracuse University
John B. Kogut, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
R. Renken, University of Central Florida

Document Type

Article

Date

8-8-1996

Language

English

Disciplines

Physics

Description/Abstract

We consider two issues in the DT model of quantum gravity. First, it is shown that the triangulation space for D>3 is dominated by triangulations containing a single singular (D-3)-simplex composed of vertices with divergent dual volumes. Second we study the ergodicity of current simulation algorithms. Results from runs conducted close to the phase transition of the four-dimensional theory are shown. We see no strong indications of ergodicity br eaking in the simulation and our data support recent claims that the transition is most probably first order. Furthermore, we show that the critical properties of the system are determined by the dynamics of remnant singular vertices.

Additional Information

Talk presented at LATTICE96(gravity) More information at http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-lat/9608042

Recommended Citation

Catterall, Simon; Thorleifsson, G.; Kogut, John B.; and Renken, R., "Simplicial Gravity in Dimension Greater than Two" (1996). Physics - All Scholarship. 484.
https://surface.syr.edu/phy/484

Source

Harvested from Arxiv.org

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