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Rainbow metric from quantum gravity
- Publication Year :
- 2014
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Abstract
- In this letter, we describe a general mechanism for emergence of a rainbow metric from a quantum cosmological model. This idea is based on QFT on a quantum space-time. Under general assumptions, we discover that the quantum space-time on which the field propagates can be replaced by a classical space-time, whose metric depends explicitly on the energy of the field: as shown by an analysis of dispersion relations, quanta of different energy propagate on different metrics, similar to photons in a refractive material (hence the name "rainbow" used in the literature). In deriving this result, we do not consider any specific theory of quantum gravity: the qualitative behavior of high-energy particles on quantum space-time relies only on the assumption that the quantum space-time is described by a wave-function $\Psi_o$ in a Hilbert space $\mathcal{H}_G$.<br />Comment: 4 pages, 2 figures. Accepted version in PLB
Details
- Database :
- arXiv
- Publication Type :
- Report
- Accession number :
- edsarx.1412.6000
- Document Type :
- Working Paper
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2015.10.043