Symmetry-breaking and zero-one laws
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Author(s)
Dowker, Fay
Sorkin, RD
Type
Journal Article
Abstract
We offer further evidence that discreteness of the sort inherent in a causal set cannot, in and of itself, serve to break Poincaré invariance. In particular we prove that a Poisson sprinkling of Minkowski spacetime cannot endow spacetime with a distinguished spatial or temporal orientation, or with a distinguished lattice of spacetime points, or with a distinguished lattice of timelike directions (corresponding respectively to breakings of reflection-invariance, translation-invariance, and Lorentz invariance). Along the way we provide a proof from first principles of the zero-one law on which our new arguments are based.
Date Issued
2020-08-06
Date Acceptance
2020-03-20
Citation
Classical and Quantum Gravity, 2020, 37 (15)
ISSN
0264-9381
Publisher
IOP Publishing
Journal / Book Title
Classical and Quantum Gravity
Volume
37
Issue
15
Copyright Statement
© 2020 The Author(s). Published by IOP Publishing Ltd. Original content from this work may be used under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence. Any further distribution of this work must maintain attribution to the author(s) and the title of the work, journal citation and DOI.
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Sponsor
The Royal Society
Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC)
Identifier
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1361-6382/ab81cd
Grant Number
APX\R1\180098
ST/P000762/1
Subjects
gr-qc
gr-qc
hep-lat
hep-th
math.PR
01 Mathematical Sciences
02 Physical Sciences
Nuclear & Particles Physics
Publication Status
Published
Date Publish Online
2020-07-10