A note on the innocuous implications of a minimum length in quantum gravity

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/26/1/018001MaRDI QIDQ5505637zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Paul H. Frampton

Publication date 27 January 2009

Published in Classical and Quantum Gravity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0808.0283

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45) Relativistic gravitational theories other than Einstein's, including asymmetric field theories (83D05)

Abstract: A modification to the time-energy uncertainty relation in quantum gravity has been interpreted as increasing the duration of fluctuations producing virtual black holes with masses greater than the Planck mass. I point out that such virtual black holes have an exponential factor arising from the action such that their contribution to proton decay is suppressed, rather than enhanced, relative to Planck-mass black holes.

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