Discrete Causal Theory Emergent Spacetime and the Causal Metric Hypothesis /

• Main Author: Dribus, Benjamin F. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Subjects: Physics.; Geometry.; Topology.; Gravitation.; Cosmology.; Classical and Quantum Gravitation, Relativity Theory.

This book evaluates and suggests potentially critical improvements to causal set theory, one of the best-motivated approaches to the outstanding problems of fundamental physics. Spacetime structure is of central importance to physics beyond general relativity and the standard model. The causal metri...

Table of Contents:

• Part I: Foundations of Discrete Causal Theory
• Introduction
• The Causal Metric Hypothesis
• Causal Sets and Generalizations
• Local Properties
• Part II: Discrete Quantum Causal Theory
• Relation Space and Generalizations
• Quantum Spacetime
• Kinematics and Dynamics
• Toward Phenomenology
• Conventions.