Abstract
We extend the discrete Regge action of causal dynamical triangulations to include discrete versions of the curvature squared terms appearing in the continuum action of -dimensional projectable Hořava-Lifshitz gravity. Focusing on an ensemble of spacetimes whose spacelike hypersurfaces are two-spheres, we employ Markov chain Monte Carlo simulations to study the path integral defined by this extended discrete action. We demonstrate the existence of known and novel macroscopic phases of spacetime geometry, and we present preliminary evidence for the consistency of these phases with solutions to the equations of motion of classical Hořava-Lifshitz gravity. Apparently, the phase diagram contains a phase transition between a time-dependent de Sitter-like phase and a time-independent phase. We speculate that this phase transition may be understood in terms of deconfinement of the global gravitational Hamiltonian integrated over a spatial two-sphere.
3 More- Received 9 December 2011
- Publisher error corrected 16 February 2012
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.85.044027
© 2012 American Physical Society
Corrections
16 February 2012