Quantum geometry of topological gravity

Details Quantum geometry of topological gravity Quantum geometry of topological gravity

1996-11-28

arxiv.org/abs/hep-lat/9611032v1

Phys.Lett. B397 (1997) 177-184

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Lattice

12 pages, LaTeX, 4 figures using psfig.sty and epsf.sty

Scientific paper

10.1016/S0370-2693(97)00183-4

We study a c=-2 conformal field theory coupled to two-dimensional quantum gravity by means of dynamical triangulations. We define the geodesic distance r on the triangulated surface with N triangles, and show that dim[r^{d_H}]= dim[N], where the fractal dimension d_H = 3.58 +/- 0.04. This result lends support to the conjecture d_H = -2\alpha_1/\alpha_{-1}, where \alpha_{-n} is the gravitational dressing exponent of a spin-less primary field of conformal weight (n+1,n+1), and it disfavors the alternative prediction d_H = -2/\gamma_{str}. On the other hand, we find dim[l] = dim[r^2] with good accuracy, where l is the length of one of the boundaries of a circle with (geodesic) radius r, i.e. the length l has an anomalous dimension relative to the area of the surface. It is further shown that the spectral dimension d_s = 1.980 +/- 0.014 for the ensemble of (triangulated) manifolds used. The results are derived using finite size scaling and a very efficient recursive sampling technique known previously to work well for c=-2.

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