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Induced spatial geometry from causal structure
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Motivated by the Hawking-King-McCarthy-Malament (HKMM) theorem and the associated reconstruction of spacetime geometry from its causal structure (M, (sic)) and local volume element epsilon, we define a one-parameter family of spatial distance functions on a Cauchy hypersurface Sigma using only (M, (sic)) and epsilon. The parameter corresponds to a 'mesoscale' cut-off which, when appropriately chosen, provides a distance function which approximates the induced spatial distance function to leading order. This admits a straightforward generalisation to the discrete analogue of a Cauchy hypersurface in a causal set. For causal sets which arc approximated by continutun spacetimes, this distance function approaches the continuum induced distance when the mesoscale is much smaller than the scale of the extrinsic curvature of the hypersurface, but much larger than the discreteness scale. We verify these expectations by performing extensive numerical simulations of causal sets which arc approximated by simple spacetime regions in 2 and 3 spacetime dimensions.
Keywords:
causal structure
quantum gravity
causal sets
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