Ising spins on a gravitating sphere

Nov, 1995
13 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Lett.B 375 (1996) 69-74
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Report number:
  • FUB-HEP-18-95,
  • KOMA-95-81

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Abstract:
We investigated numerically an Ising model coupled to two-dimensional Euclidean gravity with spherical topology, using Regge calculus with the dl/ldl/l path-integral measure to discretize the gravitational interaction. Previous studies of this system with toroidal topology have shown that the critical behavior of the Ising model remains in the flat-space Onsager universality class, contrary to the predictions of conformal field theory and matrix models. Implementing the spherical topology as triangulated surfaces of three-dimensional cubes, we find again strong evidence that the critical exponents of the Ising transition are consistent with the Onsager values, and that KPZ exponents are definitely excluded.
  • 02.70Lq
  • 04.60+n
  • Regge Calculus
  • 2D Quantum Gravity
  • Ising Spins
  • Ising model
  • quantum gravity: Euclidean
  • dimension: 2
  • lattice field theory: sphere
  • field theoretical model: Regge