No minimum length in conformally reduced gravity

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/29/20/207001MaRDI QIDQ3143950zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Colin Cunliff

Publication date 6 December 2012

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1201.2247

zbMATH Keywords

conformal fluctuationsEinstein-Hilbert gravityPlanck lengthtrace anomaly-induced effective action

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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: This paper corrects an earlier work suggesting that the quantum expectation value of the proper length is bounded from below by the Planck length. The original calculation examined fluctuations of the conformal factor of Einstein-Hilbert gravity. However, in Einstein-Hilbert gravity, the conformal factor is not a dynamical field subject to fluctuations. This paper performs the same calculation using the trace anomaly-induced effective action for the conformal factor and finds that, while conformal fluctuations modify the short-distance behavior of the interval, the interval still approaches zero in the coincidence limit.

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