SCALING AND THE FRACTAL GEOMETRY OF 2-DIMENSIONAL QUANTUM-GRAVITY

Citation
S. Catterall et al., SCALING AND THE FRACTAL GEOMETRY OF 2-DIMENSIONAL QUANTUM-GRAVITY, Physics letters. Section B, 354(1-2), 1995, pp. 58-68
Citations number
23
Categorie Soggetti
Physics
Journal title
ISSN journal
03702693
Volume
354
Issue
1-2
Year of publication
1995
Pages
58 - 68
Database
ISI
SICI code
0370-2693(1995)354:1-2<58:SATFGO>2.0.ZU;2-7
Abstract
We examine the scaling of geodesic correlation functions in two-dimens ional gravity and in spin systems coupled to gravity. The numerical da ta support the scaling hypothesis and indicate that the quantum geomet ry develops a nonperturbative length scale. The existence of this leng th scale allows us to extract a Hausdorff dimension. In the case of pu re gravity we find dr approximate to 3.8, in support of recent theoret ical calculations that d(H) = 4. We also discuss the back-reaction of matter on the geometry.