Order-invariant measures on fixed causal sets
Brightwell, Graham; and Luczak, Malwina
(2009)
Order-invariant measures on fixed causal sets
Technical Report.
arXiv.
A causal set is a countably infinite poset in which every element is above finitely many others; causal sets are exactly the posets that have a linear extension with the order-type of the natural numbers -- we call such a linear extension a {\em natural extension}. We study probability measures on the set of natural extensions of a causal set, especially those measures having the property of {\em order-invariance}: if we condition on the set of the bottom k elements of the natural extension, each possible ordering among these k elements is equally likely. We give sufficient conditions for the existence and uniqueness of an order-invariant measure on the set of natural extensions of a causal set.
| Item Type | Report (Technical Report) |
|---|---|
| Copyright holders | © 2009 The authors |
| Departments | Mathematics |
| Date Deposited | 09 Apr 2010 13:59 |
| URI | https://researchonline.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/27677 |
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