J. Ambjorn et al., 4-DIMENSIONAL DYNAMICALLY TRIANGULATED GRAVITY COUPLED TO MATTER, Physical review. D. Particles and fields, 48(8), 1993, pp. 3695-3703
We investigate the phase structure of four-dimensional quantum gravity
coupled to Ising spins or Gaussian scalar fields by means of numerica
l simulations. The quantum gravity part is modeled by the summation ov
er random simplicial manifolds, and the matter fields are located in t
he center of the four-simplices, which constitute the building blocks
of the manifolds. We find that the coupling between spin and geometry
is weak away from the critical point of the Ising model. At the critic
al point there is clear coupling, which qualitatively agrees with that
of Gaussian fields coupled to gravity. In the case of pure gravity a
transition between a phase with highly connected geometry and a phase
with very ''dilute'' geometry has been observed earlier. The nature of
this transition seems unaltered when matter fields are included. It w
as the hope that continuum physics could be extracted at the transitio
n between the two types of geometries. The coupling to matter fields,
at least in the form discussed in this paper, seems not to improve the
scaling of the curvature at the transition point.