Multifractional theories: an unconventional review

DOI10.1007/JHEP03(2017)138MaRDI QIDQ1693006zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Gianluca Calcagni

Publication date 10 January 2018

Published in Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1612.05632

zbMATH Keywords

classical theories of gravitycosmology of theories beyond the SMmodels of quantum gravityspace-time symmetriesmultifractional spacetime

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Fractional partial differential equations (35R11) Conformal densities and Hausdorff dimension for holomorphic dynamical systems (37F35) Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45) Relativistic gravitational theories other than Einstein's, including asymmetric field theories (83D05) Relativistic cosmology (83F05) Astrophysical cosmology (85A40) Topological characterizations of particular spaces (54F65) Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to relativity and gravitational theory (83-02)

Abstract: We answer to 72 frequently asked questions about theories of multifractional spacetimes. Apart from reviewing and reorganizing what we already know about such theories, we discuss the physical meaning and consequences of the very recent flow-equation theorem on dimensional flow in quantum gravity, in particular its enormous impact on the multifractional paradigm. We will also get some new theoretical results about the construction of multifractional derivatives and the symmetries in the yet-unexplored theory $T_{g}amma$, the resolution of ambiguities in the calculation of the spectral dimension, the relation between the theory $T_q$ with $q$-derivatives and the theory $T_{g}amma$ with fractional derivatives, the interpretation of complex dimensions in quantum gravity, the frame choice at the quantum level, the physical interpretation of the propagator in $T_{g}amma$ as an infinite superposition of quasiparticle modes, the relation between multifractional theories and quantum gravity, and the issue of renormalization, arguing that power-counting arguments do not capture the exotic properties of extreme UV regimes of multifractional geometry, where $T_{g}amma$ may indeed be renormalizable. A careful discussion of experimental bounds and new constraints are also presented.

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