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Minkowski space is locally the Noldus limit of Poisson process causets. (English) Zbl 1351.83003

Summary: A Poisson process \({P}_{\lambda}\) on \(\mathbb{R}^{d}\) with causal structure inherited from the the usual Minkowski metric on \(\mathbb{R}^{d}\) has a normalised discrete causal distance \({D}_{\lambda}(x,y)\) given by the height of the longest causal chain normalised by \({\lambda}^{1/d}{c}_{d}\). We prove that \({P}_{\lambda}\) restricted to a compact set \(Q\) converges in probability in the sense of J. Noldus [Classical Quantum Gravity 21, No. 4, 839–850 (2004; Zbl 1055.83034)] to \(Q\) with the Minkowski metric.

MSC:

83A05 Special relativity
83C27 Lattice gravity, Regge calculus and other discrete methods in general relativity and gravitational theory
54F65 Topological characterizations of particular spaces
03E75 Applications of set theory

Citations:

Zbl 1055.83034