Emergence of a 4D world from causal quantum gravity.

Causal Dynamical Triangulations in four dimensions provide a background-independent definition of the sum over geometries in nonperturbative quantum gravity, with a positive cosmological constant. We present evidence that a macroscopic four-dimensional world emerges from this theory dynamically.

• Publication year

  2004

• Venue

  Physical Review Letters

• Publication date

  2004-04-21

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Physics

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  DOI 10.1103/PhysRevLett.93.131301arXiv hep-th/0404156PMID 15524700
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