Quantum gravity: unification of principles and interactions, and promises of spectral geometry

DOI10.3842/SIGMA.2007.098MaRDI QIDQ2473503zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Giampiero Esposito, Matthias Lesch, Bernhelm Booß-Bavnbek

Publication date 27 February 2008

Published in SIGMA. Symmetry, Integrability and Geometry: Methods and Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0708.1705, https://eudml.org/doc/54086, http://www.emis.de/journals/SIGMA/2007/098/

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zbMATH Keywords

general relativityquantum gravityquantum mechanicsspectral geometry

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Noncommutative geometry (à la Connes) (58B34) Index theory and related fixed-point theorems on manifolds (58J20) Eta-invariants, Chern-Simons invariants (58J28) Spectral flows (58J30) Boundary value problems on manifolds (58J32) Determinants and determinant bundles, analytic torsion (58J52) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45) Geometrodynamics and the holographic principle (83E05) String and superstring theories in gravitational theory (83E30) Supergravity (83E50)

Abstract: Quantum gravity was born as that branch of modern theoretical physics that tries to unify its guiding principles, i.e., quantum mechanics and general relativity. Nowadays it is providing new insight into the unification of all fundamental interactions, while giving rise to new developments in modern mathematics. It is however unclear whether it will ever become a falsifiable physical theory, since it deals with Planck-scale physics. Reviewing a wide range of spectral geometry from index theory to spectral triples, we hope to dismiss the general opinion that the mere mathematical complexity of the unification programme will obstruct that programme.

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