Calculating the dimension of a Euclidian Quantum Gravity model

Author(s)

Felipe Honorio dos Santos

• Document type: Master's Dissertation
• Press: São Paulo.
• Institution: Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Instituto de Física (IF/SBI)
• Defense date: 2007-03-22

Examining board members

Paulo Teotonio Sobrinho; Carlos Eugenio Imbassahy Carneiro; Franciscus Josef Vanhecke

• Advisor: Paulo Teotonio Sobrinho

Abstract

This work had the intention of calculating the dimension of a Euclidian Quantum Gravity model which in based on the formalism of non commutative geometry. This work is a continuation of the article [4]. From [4] we know that using a commutative spectral triple allows us to generalize and treat ordinary geometry in a purely algebraic manner. From Non commutative Geometry [2] follows that manifolds and a spectral triples are related. After defining action, dynamical variables and observables in terms of the spectral triple, a relationship between Random Matrix Theory [6] came up. That relationship was used to evaluate the model dimension using numerical computation algorithms. We studied on particular manifold which is equivalent to an ordinary set of points. The dimension is a stochatic variable, for instance this model allow any possible value for dimension inside the interval [0;2] We found two distinct methods for calculating the dimension. One of them was based on the dimension defined by Alain Connes and the other is based on the dimension defined by Weyl. It is known thad both definitions are equivalent for the simple cases. Given these two methods we calculated the dimension through a Monte Carlo algorithm created and implemented during this work. The program simulated a finite approximation for the dimension and after running several simulations depending on the number of points we founds the asymptotic law for the dimension. We found that the dimension is a \"thermodynamical variable\" near the finite value 1, since we found that the estimator of this observable has variance thad goes to zero on the continuous case. This result is very interesting due to the broad characteristics of the space chosen. Given that the upper limit for the dimension calculated in [4] was 2, we were expecting any stochastic distribution in the interval between 0 and 2, and the results sugest that dimension is a delta (AU)