• Title of article

    Regge gravity on general triangulations

  • Author/Authors

    Wolfgang Beirl، نويسنده , , Harald Markum، نويسنده , , Jürgen Riedler، نويسنده ,

  • Issue Information
    روزنامه با شماره پیاپی سال 1994
  • Pages
    7
  • From page
    12
  • To page
    18
  • Abstract
    We investigate quantum gravity in four dimensions using the Regge approach on triangulations of the four-torus with general, non-regular incidence matrices. We observe that the simplicial lattice with originally 31 regular vertices tends to develop spikes at irregularly inserted vertices with low coordination numbers even for vanishing gravitational coupling. Different to the regular, hypercubic lattices almost exclusively used in previous studies, we find now that the observables depend on the measure. Computations with nonvanishing gravitational coupling still reveal the existence of a region with well-defined expectation values. However, the phase structure depends on the triangulation with the regular and additional vertices undergoing two separate transitions. Even with additional higher-order terms in the action the critical behavior of the system changes with varying (local) coordination numbers.
  • Journal title
    PHYSICS LETTERS B
  • Serial Year
    1994
  • Journal title
    PHYSICS LETTERS B
  • Record number

    904293