Sep 16 – 20, 2024
Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics
America/Toronto timezone

Quantum discreteness and spacetime causality: what's in the mix?

Sep 19, 2024, 9:40 AM
40m
PI/1-100 - Theatre (Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics)

PI/1-100 - Theatre

Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics

190
Conference Talk

Speaker

Sumati Surya (Raman Research Institute)

Description

The notion of causality is intimately tied to both, a transitive ordering on events, and the possibility of unrelated events. Thus, any causality structure is a partially ordered set or poset. This is the case in Lorentzian spacetime, which possesses a single time direction. In causal set quantum gravity, this spacetime causality structure is "first quantised" by discretising it. However, as with any dynamical quantum theory of spacetime, background notions of causality are insufficient. I will discuss how ordering and discreteness, as manifested in the sequential growth paradigm, provide a broad framework for quantum dynamical notions of causality.

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