Quantum spacetime and the universe at the big bang, vanishing interactions and fading degrees of freedom

DOI10.1007/S11040-020-09369-9MaRDI QIDQ2220910zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Sergio Doplicher, Gerardo Morsella, Nicola Pinamonti

Publication date 25 January 2021

Published in Mathematical Physics, Analysis and Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.04756

zbMATH Keywords

evolution of the universenoncommutative field theoriesperturbation theoryquantum cosmologyquantum spacetime

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Operator algebra methods applied to problems in quantum theory (81R15) Perturbative methods of renormalization applied to problems in quantum field theory (81T15) Noncommutative geometry methods in quantum field theory (81T75) Methods of noncommutative geometry in general relativity (83C65)

Abstract: As discussed in arXiv:1501.03298, Physics suggests that, close to cosmological singularities, the effective Planck length diverges, hence a "quantum point" becomes infinitely extended. We argue that, as a consequence, at the origin of times spacetime might reduce effectively to a single point and interactions disappear. This last point is supported by converging evidences in two different approaches to interacting quantum fiedls on Quantum Spacetime: the field operators evaluated at a "quantum point" converge to zero, and so do the lowest order expressions for interacting fields in the Yang Feldman approach, while, at all orders we find convergence to zero of the interacting field operators obtained adapting methods of perturbative Algebraic Quantum Field Theory to Quantum Spacetime, with a novel picture of the effective Lagrangian introduced in arXiv:1906.05855. This novel picture mantains the ultraviolet finiteness of the perturbation expansion but allows us to prove also the convergence in the adiabatic limit. It remains an open question whether the S matrix itself converges to unity and whether the limit in which the effective Planck length diverges is a unique initial condition or an unreachable limit, and only different asymptotics matter.

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