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Symmetry-breaking and zero-one laws

Authors :
Dowker, Fay
Sorkin, Rafael D.
Publication Year :
2019

Abstract

We offer further evidence that discreteness of the sort inherent in a causal set cannot, in and of itself, serve to break Poincar{\'e} 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.<br />Comment: plainTeX, 19 pages, no figures. Most current version will be available at http://www.perimeterinstitute.ca/personal/rsorkin/some.papers/ (or wherever my home-page may be)

Details

Database :
arXiv
Publication Type :
Report
Accession number :
edsarx.1909.06070
Document Type :
Working Paper
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6382/ab81cd