Published 2014
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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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Identifiers
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- International Journal of Modern Physics. D
- Journal Volume
- 23
- Journal Issue
- 12
- Journal Page Range
- vp.
- ISSN
- 0218-2718
INIS
- Country of Publication
- Singapore
- Country of Input or Organization
- United States
- INIS RN
- 54046637
- Subject category
- S71: CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS; S79: ASTROPHYSICS, COSMOLOGY AND ASTRONOMY;
- Descriptors DEI
- GENERAL RELATIVITY THEORY; GEOMETRY; PHASE SPACE; QUANTUM GRAVITY; SPACE-TIME; STRING THEORY
- Descriptors DEC
- FIELD THEORIES; MATHEMATICAL SPACE; MATHEMATICS; M-THEORY; QUANTUM FIELD THEORY; RELATIVITY THEORY; SPACE
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