Chiral vacuum fluctuations in quantum gravity

DOI10.1103/PHYSREVLETT.106.121302zbMATH Open1255.83055arXiv1010.3552OpenAlexW1994476353WikidataQ83946590 ScholiaQ83946590MaRDI QIDQ4903080FDOQ4903080

Authors: Dionigi M. T. Benincasa, João Magueijo 

Publication date: 19 January 2013

Published in: Physical Review Letters (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We examine tensor perturbations around a deSitter background within the framework of Ashtekar's variables and cousins parameterized by the Immirzi parameter $gamma$. At the classical level we recover standard cosmological perturbation theory, with illuminating insights. Quantization leads to real novelties. In the low energy limit we find a second quantized theory of gravitons which displays different vacuum fluctuations for right and left gravitons. Nonetheless right and left gravitons have the same (positive) energies, resolving a number of paradoxes suggested in the literature. The right-left asymmetry of the vacuum fluctuations depends on $gamma$ and the ordering of the Hamiltonian constraint, and it would leave a distinctive imprint in the polarization of the cosmic microwave background, thus opening quantum gravity to observational test.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1010.3552

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zbMATH Keywords

Immirzi parametertensor perturbations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45)

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