Critical Space-Time Networks and Geometric Phase Transitions from Frustrated Edge Antiferromagnetism

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Recently I proposed a simple dynamical network model for discrete space-time which self-organizes as a graph with Hausdorff dimension dₕ=4. The model has a geometric quantum phase transition with disorder parameter (dₕ-dₛ) where dₛ is the spectral dimension of the dynamical graph. Self-organization in this network model is based on a competition between a ferromagnetic Ising model for vertices and an antiferromagnetic Ising model for edges. In this paper I solve a toy version of this model defined on a bipartite graph in the mean field approximation. I show that the geometric phase transition corresponds exactly to the antiferromagnetic transition for edges, the dimensional disorder parameter of the former being mapped to the staggered magnetization order parameter of the latter. The model has a critical point with long-range correlations between edges, where a continuum random geometry can be defined, exactly as in Kazakov's famed 2D random lattice Ising model but now in any number of dimensions.