D-particle-inspired analysis of localization limits in quantum gravity

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/21/21/011MaRDI QIDQ4660921zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Luisa Doplicher, Giovanni Amelino-Camelia

Publication date 4 April 2005

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0312313

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45)

Abstract: Some recent studies of the properties of D-particles suggest that in string theory a rather conventional description of spacetime might be available up to scales that are significantly smaller than the Planck length. We test this expectation by analyzing the localization of a space-time event marked by the collision of two D-particles. We find that a spatial coordinate of the event can indeed be determined with better-than-Planckian accuracy, at the price of a rather large uncertainty in the time coordinate. We then explore the implications of these results for the popular quantum-gravity intuition which assigns to the Planck length the role of absolute limit on localization.

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