Quantum theory of the generalised uncertainty principle

DOI10.1007/S10714-017-2220-0zbMATH Open1380.83089OpenAlexW2595870466MaRDI QIDQ1698544FDOQ1698544

Authors Jean-Philippe Bruneton, J. Larena

Publication date 15 February 2018

Published in General Relativity and Gravitation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1602.00608

zbMATH Keywords

phenomenology of quantum gravitygeneralised uncertainty principleminimal length scenarios

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum measurement theory, state operations, state preparations (81P15) Geometry and quantization, symplectic methods (81S10) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45)

Abstract: We extend significantly previous works on the Hilbert space representations of the Generalized Uncertainty Principle (GUP) in 3+1 dimensions of the form $[X_i,P_j]=i{F}_{ij}$ where $F_{ij}=f(P^2)delt{a}_{ij}+g(P^2)P_i{P}_j$ for any functions $f$. However, we restrict our study to the case of commuting $X$'s. We focus in particular on the symmetries of the theory, and the minimal length that emerge in some cases. We first show that, at the algebraic level, there exists an unambiguous mapping between the GUP with a deformed quantum algebra and a quadratic Hamiltonian into a standard, Heisenberg algebra of operators and an aquadratic Hamiltonian, provided the boost sector of the symmetries is modified accordingly. The theory can also be mapped to a completely standard Quantum Mechanics with standard symmetries, but with momentum dependent position operators. Next, we investigate the Hilbert space representations of these algebraically equivalent models, and focus, specifically on whether they exhibit a minimal length. We carry the functional analysis of the various operators involved, and show that the appearance of a minimal length critically depends on the relationship between the generators of translations and the physical momenta. In particular, because this relationship is preserved by the algebraic mapping presented in this paper, when a minimal length is present in the standard GUP, it is also present in the corresponding Aquadratic Hamiltonian formulation, despite the perfectly standard algebra of this model. In general, a minimal length requires bounded generators of translations, i.e. a specific kind of quantization of space, and this depends on the precise shape of the function $f$ defined previously. This result provides an elegant and unambiguous classification of which universal quantum gravity corrections lead to the emergence of a minimal length.

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