Stable Homology as an Indicator of Manifoldlikeness in Causal Set Theory

Details Stable Homology as an Indicator of Manifoldlikeness in Causal Set Theory Stable Homology as an Indicator of Manifoldlikeness in Causal Set Theory

2009-02-03

arxiv.org/abs/0902.0434v2

Class.Quant.Grav.26:175008,2009

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Latex, 46 pages, 43 .eps figures, v2 numerous changes to content and presentation

Scientific paper

10.1088/0264-9381/26/17/175008

We present a computational tool that can be used to obtain the "spatial" homology groups of a causal set. Localisation in the causal set is seeded by an inextendible antichain, which is the analog of a spacelike hypersurface, and a one parameter family of nerve simplicial complexes is constructed by "thickening" this antichain. The associated homology groups can then be calculated using existing homology software, and their behaviour studied as a function of the thickening parameter. Earlier analytical work showed that for an inextendible antichain in a causal set which can be approximated by a globally hyperbolic spacetime region, there is a one parameter sub-family of these simplicial complexes which are homological to the continuum, provided the antichain satisfies certain conditions. Using causal sets that are approximated by a set of 2d spacetimes our numerical analysis suggests that these conditions are generically satisfied by inextendible antichains. In both 2d and 3d simulations, as the thickening parameter is increased, the continuum homology groups tend to appear as the first region in which the homology is constant, or "stable" above the discreteness scale. Below this scale, the homology groups fluctuate rapidly as a function of the thickening parameter. This provides a necessary though not sufficient criterion to test for manifoldlikeness of a causal set.

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