A toy model of discretized gravity in two dimensions and its extensions

Marcello Rotondo, Shin'ichi Nojiri
2017 Modern Physics Letters A  
We propose a toy model of quantum gravity in two dimensions with Euclidean signature. The model is given by a kind of discretization which is different from the dynamical triangulation. We show that there exists a continuum limit and we can calculate some physical quantities such as the expectation value of the area, that is, the volume of the two dimensional euclidean space-time. We also consider the extensions of the model to higher dimensions.
doi:10.1142/s0217732317501498 fatcat:vajl24rvpjfghl5tkdt76gwl5e