General relativity with space-time defects

DOI10.1088/1361-6382/AAD38CMaRDI QIDQ3120884zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Ricardo Gallego Torromé, Sabine Hossenfelder

Publication date 19 March 2019

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.02657

zbMATH Keywords

Palatini-formalismspace-time defectsvector non-metricity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45) Relativistic gravitational theories other than Einstein's, including asymmetric field theories (83D05)

Abstract: General relativity is incomplete because it cannot describe quantum effects of space-time. The complete theory of quantum gravity is not yet known and to date no observational evidence exists that space-time is quantized. However, in most approaches to quantum gravity the space-time manifold of general relativity is only an effective limit that, among other things like higher curvature terms, should receive corrections stemming from space-time defects. We here develop a modification of general relativity that describes local space-time defects and solve the Friedmann equations. From this, we obtain the time-dependence of the density of defects. It turns out that the defects' density dilutes quickly, somewhat faster even than radiation.

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