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We investigate the transition between the phases B and Cb observed in four-dimensional Causal Dynamical Triangulations (CDT). We find that the critical properties of CDT with toroidal spatial topology are the same as earlier observed in spherical spatial topology where the B − Cb transition was found to be higher-order. This may have important consequences for the existence of the continuum limit of CDT, describing the perspective UV limit of quantum gravity, which potentially can be investigated in the toroidal model.
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Ambjørn, J., Czelusta, G., Gizbert-Studnicki, J. et al. The higher-order phase transition in toroidal CDT. J. High Energ. Phys. 2020, 30 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP05(2020)030
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