Common Structures in 2,3 and 4D Simplicial Quantum Gravity

Abstract

Two kinds of statistical properties of dynamical-triangulated manifolds (DT mfds) have been investigated. First, the surfaces appearing on the boundaries of 3D DT mfds were investigated. The string-susceptibility exponent of the boundary surfaces ($\tilde{\gamma}_{st}$) of 3D DT mfds with $S^{3}$ topology near to the critical point was obtained by means of a MINBU (minimum neck baby universes) analysis; actually, we obtained $\tilde{\gamma}_{st} \approx -0.5$. Second, 3 and 4D DT mfds were also investigated by determining the string-susceptibility exponent near to the critical point from measuring the MINBU distributions. As a result, we found a similar behavior of the MINBU distributions in 3 and 4D DT mfds, and obtained $\gamma_{st}^{(3)} \approx \gamma_{st}^{(4)} \approx 0$. The existence of common structures in simplicial quantum gravity is also discussed.