Discreteness without symmetry breaking: A theorem

Modern Physics Letters A

Volumn 24, Issue 32, 2009, Pages 2579-2587

  Bombelli, Luca ^a   Henson, Joe ^b,c   Sorkin, Rafael D ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI   (United States)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c PERIMETER INSTITUTE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (Canada)

^d SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Causal sets; Lorentz symmetry; Spacetime discreteness

Indexed keywords

EID: 70449366595     PISSN: 02177323     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0217732309031958     Document Type: Article

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