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我们基于可变边长图上的Ricci曲率概念,建立了边长动力学的欧几里得理论。 为了为爱因斯坦-希尔伯特动作的离散类似物写一个明确的形式,我们要求图要么是一棵树,要么其所有周期都应足够长。 所有边长均相等的无限规则树是具有恒定负曲率的图的示例,提供了与p -adic AdS / CFT的连接,其中此类树代替了de-Sitter空间。 我们从全息图的角度到边缘长度波动对算子的简单相关器进行计算。 该算子的维数等于边界的维数,并且具有与应力张量相同的一些特征。
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JHEP06(2017)157
Published for SISSA by Springer
Received: May 18, 2017
Accepted: June 18, 2017
Published: June 30, 2017
Edge length dynamics on graphs with applications to
p-adic AdS/CFT
Steven S. Gubser,
a
Matthew Heydeman,
b
Christian Jepsen,
a
Matilde Marcolli,
c
Sarthak Parikh,
a
Ingmar Saberi,
d
Bogdan Stoica
e,f
and Brian Trundy
a
a
Joseph Henry Laboratories, Princeton University,
Princeton, NJ 08544, U.S.A.
b
Walter Burke Institute for Theoretical Physics, California Institute of Technology,
452-48, Pasadena, CA 91125, U.S.A.
c
Department of Mathematics, California Institute of Technology,
253-37, Pasadena, CA 91125, U.S.A.
d
Mathematisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universit¨at Heidelberg,
Im Neuenheimer Feld 205, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany
e
Martin A. Fisher School of Physics, Brandeis University,
Waltham, MA 02453, U.S.A.
f
Department of Physics, Brown University,
Providence RI 02912, U.S.A.
E-mail: ssgubser@princeton.edu, mheydema@caltech.edu,
cjepsen@princeton.edu, matilde@caltech.edu, sparikh@princeton.edu,
saberi@mathi.uni-heidelberg.de, bstoica@brandeis.edu,
btrundy@princeton.edu
Abstract: We formulate a Euclidean theory of edge length dynamics based on a notion of
Ricci curvature on graphs with variable edge lengths. In order to write an explicit form for
the discrete analog of the Einstein-Hilbert action, we require that the graph should either
be a tree or that all its cycles should be sufficiently long. The infinite regular tree with all
edge lengths equal is an example of a graph with constant negative curvature, providing
a connection with p-adic AdS/CFT, where such a tree takes the place of anti-de Sitter
space. We compute simple correlators of the operator holographically dual to edge length
fluctuations. This operator has dimension equal to the dimension of the boundary, and it
has some features in common with the stress tensor.
Keywords: Lattice Models of Gravity, AdS-CFT Correspondence, Classical Theories of
Gravity
ArXiv ePrint: 1612.09580
Open Access,
c
The Authors.
Article funded by SCOAP
3
.
https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP06(2017)157
JHEP06(2017)157
Contents
1 Intro duction 1
2 Mathematical background 3
2.1 p-adic numbers and the Bruhat-Tits tree 3
2.2 An edge Laplacian 5
3 Ricci curvature on graphs 6
3.1 Negative Ricci curvature 10
3.2 A variational principle 11
4 Correlators 15
4.1 Propagators 16
4.2 Two-point function 18
4.3 The mixed three-point function 20
4.4 The purely geometric three-point function 21
5 Solutions to the discrete Einstein equations 22
6 Conclusions 26
A GL
2
transformations of edges and vertices in a uniform tree 28
B Vladimirov derivatives 29
1 Introduction
Dynamical geometry in the bulk of anti-de Sitter space is a cornerstone of the study of
the anti-de Sitter / conformal field theory correspondence (AdS/CFT). At the linearized
level, propagation of gravitons in AdS can be translated into the two-point function of the
stress-energy tensor in the CFT. At the non-linear level, dynamical geometry is involved
in everything from anomalies to holographic renormalization group flows to the formation
of black holes.
Recent developments [1, 2] in the study of holographic relations between field theories
defined on the p-adic numbers and bulk dynamics defined on a regular tree graph have
omitted the study of dynamical geometry in the bulk. Different bulk topologies were
considered in [2] in connection with non-archimedean generalizations of BTZ black holes,
following earlier work [3]; but it has generally been assumed that all edges and all vertices
on the tree are locally indistinguishable. In this paper, we want to lift this restriction by
considering variable edge lengths. More specifically, we start with an action on the tree of
the form
S
φ
=
X
hxyi
(φ
x
− φ
y
)
2
2a
2
xy
+
X
x
V (φ
x
) . (1.1)
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Here
P
hxyi
indicates a sum over edges (i.e. without counting hxyi and hyxi separately),
and a
xy
is the length of the edge xy, while V is a potential for the bulk scalar field φ
x
.
Calculations of correlators of the operator dual to φ
x
were carried out in [1, 2] with all a
xy
set equal to 1, and these calculations have notable precursors in the literature on p-adic
strings, for example [4].
1
Now we would like to ask what interesting dynamics for the edge
lengths a
xy
could be added.
2
To get started, let’s set
J
e
=
1
a
2
e
, (1.2)
where e = xy is an edge. Then J
e
is a “bond strength” or “exchange energy” for the edge
e. All our discussion focuses on Euclidean signature, in which all the bond strengths are
positive. One obvious way to make the bond strengths dynamical is to include some Gaus-
sian white noise in the J
e
: that is, we could draw each J
e
independently from a Gaussian
distribution. White noise for the J
e
seems quite unlike gravitational dynamics, because
nearby J
e
don’t pull on one another. Better would be to introduce some interactions among
the J
e
on neighboring edges by adding to the (1.1) an action
S
J
=
X
hefi
1
2
(J
e
− J
f
)
2
+
X
e
U(J
e
) , (1.3)
where hefi means a sum over neighboring edges — that is, edges which share one vertex. If
we omitted the first term in (1.3), and made the potential U quadratic, then the J
e
would
be independent from one another, and we would be back to the case of Gaussian white
noise (but unquenched assuming we form a partition function Z =
R
DJDφ e
−S
φ
−S
J
). In
particular, we see that a quadratic term in the U corresponds to a mass term for the
edge variables J
e
. Probably for something resembling gravity, we should avoid having a
quadratic term in the U.
While (1.3) is a sensible starting point, it seems ad hoc. A key idea that will lead us
to a more interesting class of edge length actions is a notion of Ricci curvature on graphs
with variable edge lengths. Closely related ideas have been developed in the mathematical
literature for some time: see for example [6–8]. Our main point of departure is the definition
of Ricci curvature in [7, 8] as a function of pairs of vertices (not necessarily neighboring
vertices), based on a comparison of distance between the two chosen vertices and a weighted
distance between two probability distributions, each one localized near one of the chosen
vertices. Our extension of this notion of Ricci curvature to the case of variable edge
lengths has some arbitrariness, so we cannot claim to have a uniquely privileged definition
1
Meanwhile, an apparently different approach to dynamics on the tree was advanced in [5], in which a
directed structure on the graph is assumed, such that each vertex has a single parent and p offspring. Then
one defines a process that probabilistically assigns the state of each vertex based only on the state of its
parent. Holographic correlators can be constructed in this approach in terms of the limits of combinations
of the probabilities of vertices which are many steps down along the tree.
2
Of course, one could imagine also introducing some dynamics for parameters in the potentials in V
that vary from vertex to vertex, but since this could be done simply by adding another field θ
x
on vertices
and introducing θ-φ interactions, we don’t think of it as such an interesting avenue.
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of the graph-theoretic Ricci curvature. However, we do have a well motivated class of
constructions with good properties, including the finding that the regular tree graph with
all edge lengths equal has constant negative curvature.
The plan of the rest of this paper is as follows. In section 2.1 we briefly review
the connection between the p-adic numbers and the regular tree graph with coordination
number p + 1. Then in section 2.2 we explain how the action (1.3) leads to a notion of
edge Laplacian which is different from the usual one, but natural from the point of view
of the so-called line graph. Next, in section 3, we give the definition of Ricci curvature
which we will use. While our motivation is p-adic AdS/CFT, edge length fluctuations
can be studied on more general graphs. The particular Ricci curvature construction that
we introduce depends on the graph being “almost a tree”, in a sense that we will make
precise in section 3. (Intuitively, what “almost a tree” means is that all cycles in the graph
should be sufficiently long.) We explain in section 3.1 how a linearized analysis around the
regular tree reduces the Ricci curvature to the edge Laplacian of the bond strengths J
xy
.
We exhibit in section 3.2 an analog of the Einstein-Hilbert action, with a boundary term
similar to the Gibbons-Hawking action. This action leads to equations of motion which
are satisfied by the regular tree with equal edge lengths, and the linearized fluctuations are
controlled as expected by the edge length Laplacian. We compute in section 4 the simplest
holographic correlators involving edge length fluctuations. In section 5 we describe an
exact solution to the equations of motion on a regular tree which deviates strongly from
constant edge length. We conclude in section 6 by reviewing our main results and indicating
some direction for future work. Appendix A reviews aspects of the action of the p-adic
conformal group on the graph whose boundary is the p-adic numbers. Appendix B explains
the Vladimirov derivative, which is a crucial construction in p-adic field theory and was
understood in the context of bulk reconstruction [2] to be effectively a normal derivative
at the boundary of the tree.
2 Mathematical background
In this section we briefly review two well-known mathematical concepts. In subsection 2.1
we explain the Bruhat-Tits tree, a regular tree whose boundary is the p-adic numbers. In
subsection 2.2 we summarize the line graph construction, which renders natural the edge
Laplacian that we encounter when linearizing the graph theoretic Ricci curvature to be
introduced in section 3.
2.1 p-adic numbers and the Bruhat-Tits tree
Introductions to p-adic numbers requiring a minimum of technical background can be found
in the recent works [1, 2] and in the earlier literature on p-adic string theory, notably [9].
Here we sketch only a few of the most relevant points.
For any chosen prime integer p, the p-adic numbers Q
p
are the completion of the
rationals Q with respect to the p-adic norm, defined on Q so that if a and b are non-zero
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integers, neither of which is divisible by p, then
|x|
p
= p
−v
when x = p
v
a
b
. (2.1)
By definition, |0|
p
= 0. We will usually drop the subscript p and write |x| instead of
|x|
p
when it is obvious from context that we mean the p-adic norm. The p-adic norm
is ultrametric, meaning that |x + y| ≤ max{|x|, |y|}. Q
p
is a field, with multiplication,
addition, and inverses defined by continuity from their usual definitions on Q.
Any non-zero p-adic number can be expressed uniquely as a series:
x = p
v
(c
0
+ c
1
p + c
2
p
2
+ . . .) , (2.2)
where v ∈ Z, c
0
∈ F
×
p
, and c
i
∈ F
p
. Here F
×
p
denotes the non-zero elements in F
p
.
3
The
infinite series in (2.2) appears to be highly divergent, but in fact it converges because the
c
i
are bounded in p-adic norm, while |p
n
| = p
−n
. The expansion (2.2) is reminiscent of the
base p representation of a real number, but it is different because it terminates to the right
and may continue indefinitely to the left.
The Bruhat-Tits tree, which we denote T
p
, can be understood informally as a graphical
representation of the expansion (2.2). We picture an infinite regular tree with coordination
number p + 1, with a privileged path leading through it (with no back-tracking) from a
boundary point that we label ∞ to another boundary point that we label 0. We describe
this privileged path as the “trunk” of the tree. We now consider another path (also with
no back-tracking) starting from the point ∞ and leading to some other boundary point
that we are going to associate with the p-adic number x. This new path must run along
the trunk for a while, and the location where it diverges from the trunk can be labeled by
the valuation v of x (as it appears in (2.2)). When we branch off the main trunk, the first
step we take requires a choice out of p − 1 possible directions, so we can label this choice
by an element c
0
∈ F
×
p
. In each subsequent step, we have to choose among p possible
directions, and each such choice can be labeled by an element c
i
∈ F
p
. In short, we see that
the data required to select the new path is in precise correspondence with the information
required to specify a non-zero p-adic number. Since infinite non-back-tracking paths from
∞ through the tree are in precise correspondence with the boundary points other than ∞,
we can say that the boundary of the tree is Q
p
∪ {∞}, which is P
1
(Q
p
).
4
It can be shown that the Bruhat-Tits tree is a quotient space:
T
p
=
PGL(2, Q
p
)
PGL(2, Z
p
)
, (2.3)
where Z
p
denotes the p-adic integers (the completion of Z with respect to |·|
p
, or equivalently
the set of all x ∈ Q
p
with |x|
p
≤ 1). The quotient (2.3) is similar to the realization of the
3
p-adic numbers in Q
p
add and multiply with carrying, so strictly speaking c
0
and c
i
take values in
{1, . . . , p − 1} and {0, . . . , p − 1} respectively, and not in F
×
p
and F
p
. For the sake of conciseness we will
suppress this technical detail in the rest of the paper.
4
If we were attempting to be rigorous, we could have started by defining the set of boundary points as
the set of semi-infinite paths (with no back-tracking) starting from some specified vertex C of the tree.
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