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CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM GRAVITY
Volume 31, Issue 12, Pages -Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/0264-9381/31/12/125007
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quantum gravity; spectral dimension; diffusion processes
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- Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics
- Government of Canada through Industry Canada
- Province of Ontario through the Ministry of Research and Innovation
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We evaluate the spectral dimension in causal set quantum gravity by simulating randomwalks on causal sets. In contrast to other approaches to quantum gravity, we find an increasing spectral dimension at small scales. This observation can be connected to the nonlocality of causal set theory that is deeply rooted in its fundamentally Lorentzian nature. Based on its large-scale behaviour, we conjecture that the spectral dimension can serve as a tool to distinguish causal sets that approximate manifolds from those that do not. As a new tool to probe quantum spacetime in different quantum gravity approaches, we introduce a novel dimensional estimator, the causal spectral dimension, based on the meeting probability of two random walkers, which respect the causal structure of the quantum spacetime. We discuss a causal-set example, where the spectral dimension and the causal spectral dimension differ, due to the existence of a preferred foliation.
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