Quantum geodesics on \lambda-Minkowski spacetime

DOI10.1088/1751-8121/AC7593MaRDI QIDQ6386599arXivFDO

Authors Cheng-Cheng Liu, Shahn Majid

Publication date 22 December 2021

Published in arXiv

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1088/1751-8121/AC7593

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Toric varieties, Newton polyhedra, Okounkov bodies (14M25) Minkowski geometries in nonlinear incidence geometry (51B20) Geodesics in global differential geometry (53C22) Approximation procedures, weak fields in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C25) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45) Methods of noncommutative geometry in general relativity (83C65) Relativistic cosmology (83F05)

arXiv classification

gr-qchep-thmath.QA

Abstract: We apply a recent formalism of quantum geodesics to the well-known bicrossproduct model $lambda$-Minkowski quantum spacetime $[x^i,t]=imathlambd{a}_p{x}^i$ with its flat quantum metric as a model of quantum gravity effects, with $lambd{a}_p$ the Planck scale. As examples, quantum geodesic flow of a plane wave gets an order $lambd{a}_p$ frequency dependent correction to the classical geodesic velocity. A quantum geodesic flow with classical velocity $v$ of a Gaussian with width $$ initially centred at the origin changes its shape but its centre of mass moves with $$, an order $lambd{a}_p^2$ correction. This implies, at least within perturbation theory, that a `point particle' cannot be modelled as an infinitely sharp Gaussian due to quantum gravity corrections. For contrast, we also look at quantum geodesics on the noncommutative torus with a 2D curved weak quantum Levi-Civita connection.

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