NPAC Technical Report SCCS-387b

Random Surfaces and Quantum Gravity: Looking for the Emergence of Continuum Theories from Triangulated Manifolds

Mark Bowick, Bernd Bruegmann, Paul Coddington, Leping Han, Geoff Harris, Enzo Marinari

Submitted January 01 1993


Abstract

We investigate the possible existence of continuum theories originating from lattice theories defined on triangulated manifolds. We discuss the 2d case, considering theories with extrinsic curvature coupled to embedding bosonic matter fields, and the 4d case, where we find that the effect of a non-trivial measure is likely to be relevant.


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