Cellular Networks as Models for Planck-Scale Physics

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dc.creatorRequardt, Manfred
dc.date1998-06-17
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dc.descriptionStarting from the working hypothesis that both physics and the corresponding mathematics have to be described by means of discrete concepts on the Planck scale, one of the many problems one has to face in this enterprise is to find the discrete protoforms of the building blocks of our ordinary continuum physics and mathematics. We base our own approach on what we call `cellular networks', consisting of cells (nodes) interacting with each other via bonds (figuring as elementary interactions) according to a certain `local law'. Geometrically our dynamical networks are living on graphs. Hence a substantial amount of the investigation is devoted to the developement of various versions of discrete (functional) analysis and geometry on such (almost random) webs. Another important topic we address is a suitable concept of intrinsic (fractal) dimension on erratic structures of this kind. In the course of the investigation we make comments concerning both different and related approaches to quantum gravity as, say, the spin network framework. It may perhaps be said that certain parts of our programme seem to be a realisation of ideas sketched by Smolin some time ago (see the introduction).
dc.description34 pages, Latex, no figures, probably being published in Journ.Phys.A MathGen
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9806135
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9806135
dc.identifierJ.Phys.A31:7997-8021,1998
dc.identifierdoi:10.1088/0305-4470/31/39/014
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/185650
dc.subjectHigh Energy Physics - Theory
dc.subjectGeneral Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
dc.subjectMathematical Physics
dc.titleCellular Networks as Models for Planck-Scale Physics
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