Non-differentiable degrees of freedom: Fluctuating metric signature

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/18/9/312zbMATH Open0981.83042arXivgr-qc/0005123OpenAlexW1999978751MaRDI QIDQ2724809FDOQ2724809

Authors: Douglas Singleton, Vladimir Dzhunushaliev 

Publication date: 12 July 2001

Published in: Classical and Quantum Gravity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In this article we investigate the metric signature as a non-differentiable ({it i.e.} discrete as opposed to continuous) degree of freedom. The specific model is a vacuum 7D Universe on the principal bundle with an SU(2) structural group. An analytical solution is found which to a 4D observer appears as a flat Universe with a fluctuating metric signature, and frozen extra dimensions with an SU(2) instanton gauge field. A piece of this solution with linear size of the Planck length ($approx{l}_{Pl}$) can be considered as seeding the quantum birth of a regular Universe. A boundary of this piece can initiate the formation of a Lorentzian Universe filled with the gauge fields and in which the extra dimensions have been ``frozen.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0005123

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zbMATH Keywords

Planck lengthmetric signaturevacuum seven-dimensional universe

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Relativistic gravitational theories other than Einstein's, including asymmetric field theories (83D05) Kaluza-Klein and other higher-dimensional theories (83E15)

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