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Implementing Bell causality in quantum sequential growth

Ritesh Srivastava and Sumati Surya

Phys. Rev. D - Accepted 11 August, 2026

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/thx5-dknv

Abstract

We explore different implementations of the quantum Bell causality (QBC) condition in the quantum sequential growth (QSG) dynamics of causal set quantum gravity, for non-commuting transition operators. Assuming a non-singular dynamics we show that for the two most natural choices of operator orderings for the QBC, the transition operator algebra š’œ reduces to a commutative one. As a third choice, we take the operator ordering to depend on the size of the precursor set. We find several new commutation relations which further constrain š’œ but do not imply commutativity. On the other hand, if any of the generators of the "antichain subalgebra" š’¬ belongs to its center, then this implies commutativity of š’œ. The complexity of the algebra prevents us from obtaining a general form for the transition operators, which hinders computability. { In an attempt to construct the simplest non-trivial d=2 representation of š’œ, we find that a Pauli matrix representation of the generators of š’¬ leads to inconsistencies. Our work can be viewed as a first step towards finding a non-commutative realisation of QSG.

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