NPAC Technical Report SCCS-764

Entropy and the Approach to the Thermodynamic Limit in 3d Simplicial Gravity

Simon Catterall, John Kogut, Ray Renken

Submitted April 10 1996


Abstract

We present numerical results supporting the existence of an exponential bound in the dynamical triangulation model of three-dimensional quantum gravity. Both the critical coupling and the number of nodes per unit volume show a slow power law approach to the infinite volume limit.


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