Spacetime can be neither discrete nor continuous

DOI10.1142/S0217732318500694MaRDI QIDQ4638565zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Christian Corda

Publication date 27 April 2018

Published in Modern Physics Letters A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.03545

zbMATH Keywords

Hawking radiationquantum levelsgravitational atomblack hole quantum physics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45) Black holes (83C57)

Abstract: We show that our recent Bohr-like approach to black hole (BH) quantum physics implies that space-time quantization could be energy-dependent. Thus, in a certain sense, space-time can be neither discrete nor continuous. Our approach permits also to show that the "volume quantum" of the Schwarzschild space-time increases with increasing energy during BH evaporation and arrives to a maximum value when the Planck scale is reached and the generalized uncertainty principle (GUP) prevents the total BH evaporation. Remarkably, this result does not depend on the BH original mass. The interesting consequence is that the behavior of BH evaporation should be the same for all Schwarzschild BHs when the Planck scale is approached.

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