334 research outputs found

    On Loop Quantum Gravity Phenomenology and the Issue of Lorentz Invariance

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    A simple model is constructed which allows to compute modified dispersion relations with effects from loop quantum gravity. Different quantization choices can be realized and their effects on the order of corrections studied explicitly. A comparison with more involved semiclassical techniques shows that there is agreement even at a quantitative level. Furthermore, by contrasting Hamiltonian and Lagrangian descriptions we show that possible Lorentz symmetry violations may be blurred as an artifact of the approximation scheme. Whether this is the case in a purely Hamiltonian analysis can be resolved by an improvement in the effective semiclassical analysis.Comment: 16 pages, RevTeX

    Self-Dual Action for Fermionic Fields and Gravitation

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    This paper studies the self-dual Einstein-Dirac theory. A generalization is obtained of the Jacobson-Smolin proof of the equivalence between the self-dual and Palatini purely gravitational actions. Hence one proves equivalence of self-dual Einstein-Dirac theory to the Einstein-Cartan-Sciama-Kibble-Dirac theory. The Bianchi symmetry of the curvature, core of the proof, now contains a non-vanishing torsion. Thus, in the self-dual framework, the extra terms entering the equations of motion with respect to the standard Einstein-Dirac field equations, are neatly associated with torsion.Comment: 13 pages, plain-tex, recently appearing in Nuovo Cimento B, volume 109, pages 973-982, September 199

    Essential self-adjointness in one-loop quantum cosmology

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    The quantization of closed cosmologies makes it necessary to study squared Dirac operators on closed intervals and the corresponding quantum amplitudes. This paper proves self-adjointness of these second-order elliptic operators.Comment: 14 pages, plain Tex. An Erratum has been added to the end, which corrects section

    Quantum gravity corrections to neutrino propagation

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    Massive spin-1/2 fields are studied in the framework of loop quantum gravity by considering a state approximating, at a length scale L\cal L much greater than Planck length P=1.2×1033\ell_P=1.2\times 10^{-33}cm, a spin-1/2 field in flat spacetime. The discrete structure of spacetime at P\ell_P yields corrections to the field propagation at scale L\cal L. Next, Neutrino Bursts (pˉ105{\bar p}\approx 10^5GeV) accompaning Gamma Ray Bursts that have travelled cosmological distances, L1010L\approx 10^{10}l.y., are considered. The dominant correction is helicity independent and leads to a time delay w.r.t. the speed of light, cc, of order (pˉP)L/c104({\bar p} \ell_P) L/c\approx 10^4s. To next order in pˉP{\bar p} \ell_P the correction has the form of the Gambini and Pullin effect for photons. Its contribution to time delay is comparable to that caused by the mass term. Finally, a dependence Los1pˉ2PL_{\rm os}^{-1} \propto {\bar p}^2 \ell_P is found for a two-flavour neutrino oscillation length.Comment: RevTeX, 5pp, no figures. Notation of a sum in Eq.(2) improved. Slight modifications in redaction. Final version to appear in Phys. Rev. Let

    Perturbative Degrees of Freedom in Loop Quantum Gravity: Anisotropies

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    The relation between an isotropic and an anisotropic model in loop quantum cosmology is discussed in detail, comparing the strict symmetry reduction with a perturbative implementation of symmetry. While the latter cannot be done in a canonical manner, it allows to consider the dynamics including the role of small non-symmetric degrees of freedom for the symmetric evolution. This serves as a model for the general situation of perturbative degrees of freedom in a background independent quantization such as loop quantum gravity, and for the more complicated addition of perturbative inhomogeneities. While being crucial for cosmological phenomenology, it is shown that perturbative non-symmetric degrees of freedom do not allow definitive conclusions for the singularity issue and in such a situation could even lead to wrong claims.Comment: 32 page

    Low-energy effects in brane worlds: Liennard-Wiechert potentials and Hydrogen Lamb shift

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    Testing extra dimensions at low-energies may lead to interesting effects. In this work a test point charge is taken to move uniformly in the 3-dimensional subspace of a (3+nn)-brane embedded in a (3+nn+1)-space with nn compact and one warped infinite spatial extra dimensions. We found that the electromagnetic potentials of the point charge match standard Liennard-Wiechert's at large distances but differ from them close to it. These are finite at the position of the charge and produce finite self-energies. We also studied a localized Hydrogen atom and take the deviation from the standard Coulomb potential as a perturbation. This produces a Lamb shift that is compared with known experimental data to set bounds for the parameter of the model. This work provides details and extends results reported in a previous Letter.Comment: Manuscript (LaTeX) and 2 figure files (eps format) used by the manuscript LaTeX fil

    The Entropy of the Rotating Charged Black Threebrane from a Brane-Antibrane System

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    We show that a model based on a D3-brane--anti-D3-brane system at finite temperature, proposed previously as a microscopic description of the non-rotating black threebrane of type IIB supergravity arbitrarily far from extremality, can also successfully reproduce the entropy of the rotating threebrane with arbitrary charge (including the neutral case, which corresponds to the Kerr black hole in seven dimensions). Our results appear to confirm in particular the need for a peculiar condition on the energy of the two gases involved in the model, whose physical interpretation remains to be elucidated.Comment: 12 pages, references added in section 1 and

    New Solution of D=11 Supergravity on S^7 from D=4

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    A new static partially twisted solution of N=4, SO(4) gauged supergravity in D=11 is obtained in this work using Cveti\^c et al embedding of four dimensional into eleven dimensional supergravities. In four dimensions we get two solutions: an asymptotic one corresponding to AdS4AdS_4 and a near horizon fixed point solution of the form AdS2×H2AdS_2\times H_2. Hence, while the former solution has 32 supercharges the latter turns out to have only 4 conserved. Moreover, we managed to find an exact interpolating solution, thus connecting the above two. Aiming at a future study of AdS/CFTAdS/CFT duality for the theory at hand we derived the Penrose limit of the four dimensional solutions. Interestingly the pp-wave limit of the near horizon solution suggests itself as being of the supernumerary supersymmetric type. In D=11 we exhibit the uplift of the four dimensional solutions: one associated to AdS4×S7AdS_4\times S^7 and the other to a foliation of AdS2×H2×S7AdS_2\times H_2 \times S^7, as well as their pp-wave limits.Comment: 14 pages, LaTe

    Loop quantum gravity and light propagation

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    Within loop quantum gravity we construct a coarse-grained approximation for the Einstein-Maxwell theory that yields effective Maxwell equations in flat spacetime comprising Planck scale corrections. The corresponding Hamiltonian is defined as the expectation value of the electromagnetic term in the Einstein-Maxwell Hamiltonian constraint, regularized a la Thiemann, with respect to a would-be semiclassical state. The resulting energy dispersion relations entail Planck scale corrections to those in flat spacetime. Both the helicity dependent contribution of Gambini and Pullin [GP] and, for a value of a parameter of our approximation, that of Ellis et. al. [ELLISETAL] are recovered. The electric/magnetic asymmetry in the regularization procedure yields nonlinearities only in the magnetic sector which are briefly discussed. Observations of cosmological Gamma Ray Bursts might eventually lead to the needed accuracy to study some of these quantum gravity effects.Comment: Latex, 45 pages, shorter abstract, additional reference
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