A mesoscopic quantum gravity effect

DOI10.1007/S10714-010-0982-8MaRDI QIDQ5961936zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Andrew Randono

Publication date 16 September 2010

Published in General Relativity and Gravitation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0805.2955

zbMATH Keywords

quantum gravityde Sitter spacequantum cosmologyKodama state

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geometry and quantization, symplectic methods (81S10) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45) Relativistic cosmology (83F05)

Abstract: We explore the symmetry reduced form of a non-perturbative solution to the constraints of quantum gravity corresponding to quantum de Sitter space. The system has a remarkably precise analogy with the non-relativistic formulation of a particle falling in a constant gravitational field that we exploit in our anaylsis. We find that the solution reduces to de Sitter space in the semi-classical limit, but the uniquely quantum features of the solution have peculiar property. Namely, the unambiguous quantum structures are neither of Planck scale nor of cosmological scale. Instead, we find a periodicity in the volume of the universe whose period, using the observed value of the cosmological constant, is on the order of the volume of the proton.

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