Fuzzy spacetime from a null-surface version of general relativity

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/14/1A/012MaRDI QIDQ4332343zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Simonetta Frittelli, Ezra T. Newman, Ranjeet S. Tate, Carlos N. Kozameh, Carlo Rovelli

Publication date 13 February 1997

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9603061

zbMATH Keywords

general relativitynull-surface

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45) Applications of global analysis to the sciences (58Z05)

Abstract: The null-surface formulation of general relativity -- recently introduced -- provides novel tools for describing the gravitational field, as well as a fresh physical way of viewing it. The new formulation provides ``local observables corresponding to the coordinates of points --- which constitute the spacetime manifold --- in a {em geometrically defined chart/}, as well as non-local observables corresponding to lightcone cuts and lightcones. In the quantum theory, the spacetime point observables become operators and the spacetime manifold itself becomes ``quantized, or ``fuzzy. This novel view may shed light on some of the interpretational problems of a quantum theory of gravity. Indeed, as we discuss briefly, the null-surface formulation of general relativity provides (local) geometrical quantities --- the spacetime point observables --- which are candidates for the long-sought physical operators of the quantum theory.

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