Could we observe the discreteness of quantum-gravity length and area operators?

DOI10.1023/A:1021620214709MaRDI QIDQ1574953zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Giovanni Amelino-Camelia

Publication date 14 August 2000

Published in Czechoslovak Journal of Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9808047

zbMATH Keywords

\(\kappa\)-deformationsarea operators with discrete eigenvaluesquantum gravity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of global analysis to the sciences (58Z05) Lattice gravity, Regge calculus and other discrete methods in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C27) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45)

Abstract: Several proposals for Quantum Gravity involve length and area operators with discrete eigenvalues. I show that the analyses of some simple procedures for the measurement of areas and lengths suggest that this discreteness characterizing the formalism might not be observable. I also discuss a possible relation with the so-called $kappa$ deformations of Poincare' symmetries.

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