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General Covariance and the "Problem of Time" in a Discrete Cosmology

2002/02/27 by Graham Brightwell, H. Fay Dowker, Brightwell, Graham +7
Physics and Astronomy · #FOS: Physical sciences #General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc) #High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th) #gr-qc #hep-th

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.gr-qc/0202097

plainTeX, 17 pages on 8.5x11 inch paper. To appear in the proceedings of the Alternative Natural Philosophy Association meeting, held August 16-21, 2001, Cambridge, England

arxiv created 2002/02/27 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30

Abstract

Identifying an appropriate set of ``observables'' is a nontrivial task for most approaches to quantum gravity. We describe how it may be accomplished in the context of a recently proposed family of stochastic (but classical) dynamical laws for causal sets. The underlying idea should work equally well in the quantum case.

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