Geometry and General Relativity in the Groupoid Model with a Finite Structure Group

DOI10.1139/CJP-2014-0145MaRDI QIDQ6249704zbMATH OpenWikidataFDO

Authors Michael Heller, Tomasz Miller, Leszek Pysiak, Wiesław Sasin

Publication date 11 March 2014

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1139/CJP-2014-0145

Abstract: In a series of papers we proposed a model unifying general relativity and quantum mechanics. The idea was to deduce both general relativity and quantum mechanics from a noncommutative algebra ${calA}_{Gamma}$ defined on a transformation groupoid $Gamma$ determined by the action of the Lorentz group on the frame bundle $(E,p{i}_M,M)$ over space-time $M$. In the present work, we construct a simplified version of the gravitational sector of this model in which the Lorentz group is replaced by a finite group $G$ and the frame bundle is trivial $E=MimesG$. The model is fully computable. We define the Einstein-Hilbert action, with the help of which we derive the generalized vacuum Einstein equations. When the equations are projected to space-time (giving the "general relativistic limit"), the extra terms that appear due to our generalization can be interpreted as "matter terms", as in Kaluza-Klein-type models. To illustrate this effect we further simplify the metric matrix to a block diagonal form, compute for it the generalized Einstein equations and find two of their "Friedmann-like" solutions for the special case when $G=mathbb{Z}_2$. One of them gives the flat Minkowski space-time (which, however, is not static), another, a hyperbolic, linearly expanding universe.

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