Abstract
dc:description.abstractThe content of this dissertation is written in a way to answer the important question of manifold likeness of causal sets. This problem has importance in the sense that in the continuum limit and in the case one finds a formalism for the sum over histories, the result requires to be embeddable in a manifold to be able to reproduce General Relativity. In what follows I will use the distribution of path length in a causal set to assign a measure for manifold likeness of causal sets to eliminate the dominance of nonmanifold like causal sets. The distribution of interval sizes is also investigated as a way to find the discrete version of scalar curvature in causal sets in order to present a dynamics of gravitational fields.
Degree
thesis:*- Name thesis:degree_name
- Ph.D. in Physics
- Level thesis:degree_level
- Dissertation
- Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
- Physics and Astronomy
- Year dc:date.available
- 2019
Author and committee
dc:creator, dc:contributor.*- Author dc:creator
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- Aghili, Miremad
- Contributors dc:contributor
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- Luca Bombelli
- Kevin Beach
- Gerard Buskes
Subjects
dc:subject × 6Identifiers
dc:identifier.*- Repository record dc:identifier
- https://egrove.olemiss.edu/etd/1529
- OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:egrove.olemiss.edu:etd-2528