Published 2014 | Version v1
Journal article

Quantum gravity, dynamical phase-space and string theory

  • 1. Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Waterloo ON (Canada)
  • 2. University of Illinois, Urbana, IL (United States)
  • 3. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech), Blacksburg, VA (United States)

Description

In a natural extension of the relativity principle, we speculate that a quantum theory of gravity involves two fundamental scales associated with both dynamical spacetime as well as dynamical momentum space. This view of quantum gravity is explicitly realized in a new formulation of string theory which involves dynamical phase-space and in which spacetime is a derived concept. This formulation naturally unifies symplectic geometry of Hamiltonian dynamics, complex geometry of quantum theory and real geometry of general relativity. As a result, the spacetime and momentum space dynamics, and thus dynamical phase-space, is governed by a new version of the renormalization group (RG).

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Additional details

Publishing Information

Journal Title
International Journal of Modern Physics. D
Journal Volume
23
Journal Issue
12
Journal Page Range
vp.
ISSN
0218-2718

Optional Information

Contract/Grant/Project number
SC0009973
Funding organization
USDOE Office of Science - SC, High Energy Physics (HEP) (United States)
Secondary number(s)
OSTIID--1594467