Chiral vacuum fluctuations in quantum gravity

DOI10.1103/PHYSREVLETT.106.121302MaRDI QIDQ4903080zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Dionigi M. T. Benincasa, João Magueijo

Publication date 19 January 2013

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

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

zbMATH Keywords

Immirzi parametertensor perturbations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45)

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.

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