The quantum structure of spacetime of the Planck scale and quantum fields

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DOI10.1007/BF02104515zbMATH Open0847.53051arXivhep-th/0303037OpenAlexW2594363316WikidataQ57532135 ScholiaQ57532135MaRDI QIDQ1912596FDOQ1912596

Klaus Fredenhagen, John E. Roberts, Sergio Doplicher

Publication date: 30 September 1996

Published in: Communications in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We propose uncertainty relations for the different coordinates of spacetime events, motivated by Heisenberg's principle and by Einstein's theory of classical gravity. A model of Quantum Spacetime is then discussed where the commutation relations exactly implement our uncertainty relations. We outline the definition of free fields and interactions over QST and take the first steps to adapting the usual perturbation theory. The quantum nature of the underlying spacetime replaces a local interaction by a specific nonlocal effective interaction in the ordinary Minkowski space. A detailed study of interacting QFT and of the smoothing of ultraviolet divergences is deferred to a subsequent paper. In the classical limit where the Planck length goes to zero, our Quantum Spacetime reduces to the ordinary Minkowski space times a two component space whose components are homeomorphic to the tangent bundle TS^2 of the 2-sphere. The relations with Connes' theory of the standard model will be studied elsewhere.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0303037




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