SPECTRAL GEOMETRY AND CAUSALITY

DOI10.1142/S0217751X98001360MaRDI QIDQ4259531zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Tomáš Kopf

Publication date 5 September 1999

Published in International Journal of Modern Physics A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9609050

zbMATH Keywords

causal relationshipsConnes' spectral triplefermionic quantization of free Weyl spinor fieldsfree quantum field theoryglobally hyperbolicLorentzian manifoldsnoncommutative geometryquantum gravityspectral data

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45)

Abstract: For a physical interpretation of a theory of quantum gravity, it is necessary to recover classical spacetime, at least approximately. However, quantum gravity may eventually provide classical spacetimes by giving spectral data similar to those appearing in noncommutative geometry, rather than by giving directly a spacetime manifold. It is shown that a globally hyperbolic Lorentzian manifold can be given by spectral data. A new phenomenon in the context of spectral geometry is observed: causal relationships. The employment of the causal relationships of spectral data is shown to lead to a highly efficient description of Lorentzian manifolds, indicating the possible usefulness of this approach. Connections to free quantum field theory are discussed for both motivation and physical interpretation. It is conjectured that the necessary spectral data can be generically obtained from an effective field theory having the fundamental structures of generalized quantum mechanics: a decoherence functional and a choice of histories.

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