A model for emergence of space and time

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSLETB.2015.07.067zbMATH Open1364.83054arXiv1505.04353OpenAlexW1680206397MaRDI QIDQ2396533FDOQ2396533

Jan Ambjørn, Yoshiyuki Watabiki

Publication date: 8 June 2017

Published in: Physics Letters B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study string field theory (third quantization) of the two-dimensional model of quantum geometry called generalized CDT ("causal dynamical triangulations"). Like in standard non-critical string theory the so-called string field Hamiltonian of generalized CDT can be associated with W-algebra generators through the string mode expansion. This allows us to define an "absolute" vacuum. "Physical" vacua appear as coherent states created by vertex operators acting on the absolute vacuum. Each coherent state corresponds to specific values of the coupling constants of generalized CDT. The cosmological "time" only exists relatively to a given "physical" vacuum and comes into existence before space, which is created because the "physical" vacuum is unstable. Thus each CDT "universe" is created as a "Big Bang" from the absolute vacuum, its time evolution is governed by the CDT string field Hamiltonian with given coupling constants, and one can imagine interactions between CDT universes with different coupling constants ("fourth quantization")

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1505.04353

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) String and superstring theories in gravitational theory (83E30)

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