Noncommutative gravity, a `no strings attached' quantum-classical duality, and the cosmological constant puzzle

DOI10.1007/S10714-008-0670-0zbMATH Open1152.83431arXiv0805.2124OpenAlexW3102289294MaRDI QIDQ960085FDOQ960085

Authors: B. E. Eshmatov 

Publication date: 16 December 2008

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

Abstract: There ought to exist a reformulation of quantum mechanics which does not refer to an external classical spacetime manifold. Such a reformulation can be achieved using the language of noncommutative differential geometry. A consequence which follows is that the `weakly quantum, strongly gravitational' dynamics of a relativistic particle whose mass is much greater than Planck mass is dual to the `strongly quantum, weakly gravitational' dynamics of another particle whose mass is much less than Planck mass. The masses of the two particles are inversely related to each other, and the product of their masses is equal to the square of Planck mass. This duality explains the observed value of the cosmological constant, and also why this value is nonzero but extremely small in Planck units.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0805.2124

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

String and superstring theories in gravitational theory (83E30) Relativistic cosmology (83F05) Methods of noncommutative geometry in general relativity (83C65)

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