Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Scientific paper
2002-10-18
Phys.Rev. D67 (2003) 084031
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
LaTeX, 1+19 pages, 2 figures
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevD.67.084031
The ``generic'' family of classical sequential growth dynamics for causal sets provides cosmological models of causal sets which are a testing ground for ideas about the, as yet unknown, quantum theory. In particular we can investigate how general covariance manifests itself and address the problem of identifying and interpreting covariant ``observables'' in quantum gravity. The problem becomes, in this setting, that of identifying measurable covariant collections of causal sets, to each of which corresponds the question: ``Does the causal set that occurs belong to this collection?'' It has for answer the probability measure of the collection. Answerable covariant questions, then, correspond to measurable collections of causal sets which are independent of the labelings of the causal sets. However, what the transition probabilities of the classical sequential growth dynamics provide directly is a measure on the space of {\it labeled} causal sets and the physical interpretation of the covariant measurable collections is consequently obscured. We show that there is a physically meaningful characterisation of the class of measurable covariant sets as unions and differences of ``stem sets''.
Brightwell Graham
Dowker Fay H.
Garcia Raquel S.
Henson Joe
Sorkin Rafael D.
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