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Discrete Causal Theory: Emergent Spacetime and the Causal Metric Hypothesis
This book evaluates and suggests potentially critical improvements to causal set theory, one of the best-motivated approaches to the outstanding problems of fundamental physics. Spacetime structure is of central importance to physics beyond general relativity and the standard model. The causal metric hypothesis treats causal relations as the basis of this structure. The book develops the consequences of this hypothesis under the assumption of a fundamental scale, with smooth spacetime geometry viewed as emergent. This approach resembles causal set theory, but differs in important ways; for example, the relative viewpoint, emphasizing relations between pairs of events, and relationships between pairs of histories, is central. The book culminates in a dynamical law for quantum spacetime, derived via generalized path summation.
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Discrete Causal Theory: Emergent Spacetime and the Causal Metric Hypothesis
This book evaluates and suggests potentially critical improvements to causal set theory, one of the best-motivated approaches to the outstanding problems of fundamental physics. Spacetime structure is of central importance to physics beyond general relativity and the standard model. The causal metric hypothesis treats causal relations as the basis of this structure. The book develops the consequences of this hypothesis under the assumption of a fundamental scale, with smooth spacetime geometry viewed as emergent. This approach resembles causal set theory, but differs in important ways; for example, the relative viewpoint, emphasizing relations between pairs of events, and relationships between pairs of histories, is central. The book culminates in a dynamical law for quantum spacetime, derived via generalized path summation.
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Discrete Causal Theory: Emergent Spacetime and the Causal Metric Hypothesis

Discrete Causal Theory: Emergent Spacetime and the Causal Metric Hypothesis

by Benjamin F. Dribus
Discrete Causal Theory: Emergent Spacetime and the Causal Metric Hypothesis
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Discrete Causal Theory: Emergent Spacetime and the Causal Metric Hypothesis

Discrete Causal Theory: Emergent Spacetime and the Causal Metric Hypothesis

by Benjamin F. Dribus

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This book evaluates and suggests potentially critical improvements to causal set theory, one of the best-motivated approaches to the outstanding problems of fundamental physics. Spacetime structure is of central importance to physics beyond general relativity and the standard model. The causal metric hypothesis treats causal relations as the basis of this structure. The book develops the consequences of this hypothesis under the assumption of a fundamental scale, with smooth spacetime geometry viewed as emergent. This approach resembles causal set theory, but differs in important ways; for example, the relative viewpoint, emphasizing relations between pairs of events, and relationships between pairs of histories, is central. The book culminates in a dynamical law for quantum spacetime, derived via generalized path summation.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9783319500836
Publisher: Springer-Verlag New York, LLC
Publication date: 04/26/2017
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 558
File size: 11 MB
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About the Author


Benjamin F. Dribus is an assistant professor of mathematics at William Carey University in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, and a member of the Foundational Questions Institute.   His principal research interests are fundamental spacetime structure and quantum gravity.  He also has a pure math research program in algebraic geometry and algebraic K-theory.

Table of Contents

Part I: Foundations of Discrete Causal Theory.- Introduction.- The Causal Metric Hypothesis.- Causal Sets and Generalizations.- Local Properties.- Part II: Discrete Quantum Causal Theory.- Relation Space and Generalizations.- Quantum Spacetime.- Kinematics and Dynamics.- Toward Phenomenology.- Conventions.
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