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Canonical General Relativity and Emergent Geometry

@inproceedings{Tee2021CanonicalGR,
  title={Canonical General Relativity and Emergent Geometry},
  author={Philip Tee},
  year={2021}
}
  • P. Tee
  • Published 23 August 2021
  • Physics
: Ising models of emergent geometry are well known to possess ground states with many of the desired features of a low dimensional, Ricci flat vacuum. Further, excitations of these ground states can be shown to replicate the quantum dynamics of a free particle in the continuum limit. It would be a significant next step in the development of emergent Ising models to link them to an underlying physical theory that has General Relativity as its continuum limit. In this work we investigate how the… 
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