Self-organized criticality in quantum gravity

dc.creatorAnsari, Mohammad H.
dc.creatorSmolin, Lee
dc.date2004-12-27
dc.date2005-05-18
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T11:32:21Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T11:32:21Z
dc.descriptionWe study a simple model of spin network evolution motivated by the hypothesis that the emergence of classical space-time from a discrete microscopic dynamics may be a self-organized critical process. Self organized critical systems are statistical systems that naturally evolve without fine tuning to critical states in which correlation functions are scale invariant. We study several rules for evolution of frozen spin networks in which the spins labelling the edges evolve on a fixed graph. We find evidence for a set of rules which behaves analogously to sand pile models in which a critical state emerges without fine tuning, in which some correlation functions become scale invariant.
dc.description9 pages, 8 figures, revised
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0412307
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0412307
dc.identifierClass.Quant.Grav.25:095016,2008
dc.identifierdoi:10.1088/0264-9381/25/9/095016
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/197570
dc.subjectHigh Energy Physics - Theory
dc.subjectStatistical Mechanics
dc.titleSelf-organized criticality in quantum gravity
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