Duality between a deterministic cellular automaton and a bosonic quantum field theory in 1+1 dimensions

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2013-05

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't Hooft, GerardISNI 0000000121429592

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Abstract

Methods developed in a previous paper are employed to define an exact correspondence between the states of a deterministic cellular automaton in 1+1 dimensions and those of a bosonic quantum field theory. The result may be used to argue that quantum field theories may be much closer related to deterministic automata than what is usually thought possible. Version 2 had a minor typo corrected and notation was made more consistent.

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Cellular automaton, Deterministic, Hilbert space, Quantum field theory, Lattice, Left and right movers, quant-ph, hep-th

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Hooft, G 2013, 'Duality between a deterministic cellular automaton and a bosonic quantum field theory in 1+1 dimensions', Foundations of Physics, vol. 43. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10701-013-9702-z