Fractal Space-Time from Spin-Foams
Fractal Space-Time from Spin-Foams
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来自旋转泡沫的分形时空
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2009
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L. Modesto
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作者:
Elena Magliaro;C. Perini;L. Modesto
In this paper we perform the calculation of the spectral dimension of spacetime in 4d quantum gravity using the Barrett-Crane (BC) spinfoam model. We realize this considering a very simple decomposition of the 4d spacetime already used in the graviton propagator calculation and we introduce a boundary state which selects a classical geometry on the boundary. We obtain that the spectral dimension of the spacetime runs from $approx 2$ to 4, across a $approx 1.5$ phase, when the energy of a probe scalar field decreases from high $E lesssim E_P/25$ to low energy. The spectral dimension at the Planck scale $E approx E_P$ depends on the areas spectrum used in the calculation. For three different spectra $l_P^2 sqrt{j(j+1)}$, $l_P^2 (2 j+1)$ and $l_P^2 j$ we find respectively dimension $approx 2.31$, 2.45 and 2.08.