Topology in 4D simplicial quantum gravity

doi:10.1016/S0370-2693(97)00047-6

Physics Letters B

Volume 395, Issues 1–2, 6 March 1997, Pages 4-9

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Abstract

We simulate 4d simplicial gravity for three topologies S⁴, S³ × S¹ and S¹ × S¹ × S¹ × S¹ and show that the free energy for these three fixed topology ensembles is the same in the thermodynamic limit N₄ → ∞. We show, that the next-to-leading order corrections, at least away from the critical point, can be described by kinematic sources.

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Topology in 4D simplicial quantum gravity

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Phase transition and topology in 4-d simplicial quantum gravity