Quantum metric for null separated events and spacetime atoms

DOI10.1088/1361-6382/AB0A40zbMATH Open1476.83054arXiv1812.01275OpenAlexW3102295207WikidataQ128384471 ScholiaQ128384471MaRDI QIDQ3380464FDOQ3380464

Authors: Alessandro Pesci 

Publication date: 28 September 2021

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

Abstract: Recently, a proposal has been made to figure out the expected discrete nature of spacetime at the smallest scales in terms of atoms of spacetime, capturing their effects through a scalar $ho$, related to their density, function of the point $P$ and vector $v^a$ at $P$. This has been done in the Euclideanized space one obtains through analytic continuation from Lorentzian sector at $P$. $ho$ has been defined in terms of a peculiar `effective' metric $q_{ab}$, of quantum origin, introduced for spacelike/timelike separated events. This metric stems from requiring that $q_{ab}$ coincides with $g_{ab}$ at large (space/time) distances, but gives finite distance in the coincidence limit, and implements directly this way one single, very basic aspect associated to any quantum description of spacetime: length quantization. Since the latter appears a quite common feature in the available quantum descriptions of gravity, this quantum metric $q_{ab}$ can be suspected to have a rather general scope and to be re-derivable (and cross-checkable) in various specific quantum models of gravity, even markedly different one from the other. This work reports on an attempt to introduce a definition of $ho$ not through the Euclidean but directly in the Lorentz sector. This turns out to be not a so trivial task, essentially because of the null case, meaning when $v^a$ is null, as in this case it seems we lack even a concept of $q_{ab}$. A notion for the quantum metric $q_{ab}$ for null separated events is then proposed and an expression for it is derived. From it, a formula for $ho$ is deduced, which turns out to coincide with what obtained through analytic continuation. This virtually completes the task of having quantum expressions of any kind of spacetime intervals, with, moreover, $ho$ defined directly in terms of them (not in the Euclideanized space).

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.01275

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zbMATH Keywords

quantum gravityemergence of spacetimequantum metric

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Local differential geometry of Lorentz metrics, indefinite metrics (53B30) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45) Methods of noncommutative geometry in general relativity (83C65)

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