Nonperturbative Lorentzian path integral for gravity

Citation
J. Ambjorn et al., Nonperturbative Lorentzian path integral for gravity, PHYS REV L, 85(5), 2000, pp. 924-927
Citations number
10
Categorie Soggetti
Physics
Journal title
PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
ISSN journal
00319007 → ACNP
Volume
85
Issue
5
Year of publication
2000
Pages
924 - 927
Database
ISI
SICI code
0031-9007(20000731)85:5<924:NLPIFG>2.0.ZU;2-B
Abstract
We construct a well-defined regularized path integral for Lorentzian quantu m gravity in terms of dynamically triangulated causal space-times. Each Lor entzian geometry and its action have a unique Wick rotation to the Euclidea n sector. All space-time histories possess a distinguished notion of a disc rete proper time and, for finite lattice volume, the associated transfer ma trix is self-adjoint, bounded. and strictly positive. The degenerate geomet ric phases found in dynamically triangulated Euclidean gravity are not pres ent.