Wheeler-DeWitt equation in 2+1 dimensions
Abstract
The infrared structure of quantum gravity is explored by solving a lattice version of the Wheeler-DeWitt equations. In the present paper only the case of 2+1 dimensions is considered. The nature of the wave function solutions is such that a finite correlation length emerges and naturally cuts off any infrared divergences. Properties of the lattice vacuum are consistent with the existence of an ultraviolet fixed point in G located at the origin, thus precluding the existence of a weak coupling perturbative phase. The correlation length exponent is determined exactly and found to be ν=6/11. The results obtained so far lend support to the claim that the Lorentzian and Euclidean formulations belong to the same field-theoretic universality class.
- Publication:
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Physical Review D
- Pub Date:
- October 2012
- DOI:
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1207.3759
- Bibcode:
- 2012PhRvD..86h4010H
- Keywords:
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- 04.60.-m;
- 04.60.Gw;
- 04.60.Nc;
- 98.80.Qc;
- Quantum gravity;
- Covariant and sum-over-histories quantization;
- Lattice and discrete methods;
- Quantum cosmology;
- High Energy Physics - Theory;
- General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
- E-Print:
- 56 pages, 7 figures, typos fixed, references added