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arXiv 0705.4398gr-qcastro-phhep-th
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拼凑宇宙的黑暗面

The Dark Side of a Patchwork Universe

Martin Bojowald

摘要:

虽然观测宇宙学最近进展迅速,但它揭示了一个被称为暗能量的严重困境:一种未知的外来能量源,具有负压力,驱动着宇宙当前的加速阶段。到目前为止,所有试图找到令人信服的理论解释的努力都失败了,因此最后的希望之一就是尚未发展的引力量子理论。在这篇文章中,圈量子引力被认为是一个候选者,重点是可能发挥作用的暗能量问题的属性。它的基本特征是空间的离散结构,通常与一般基础上的引力量子理论联系在一起。这就产生了定义明确的物质哈密顿算符,从而揭示了与宇宙学常数问题有关的概念问题。这也意味着典型的量子几何效应,从更唯象的角度来看,可能会导致暗能量。特别是后者的情况下,允许几个非平凡的测试,可以更精确的详细观察结合数值量子引力的定量研究。如果暗能量的环量子引力起源的推测性可能性最终被实现,那么这里概述的程序将有助于敲定我们关于引力的量子理论的想法,同时允许对我们宇宙的遥远未来进行预测。

英文摘要:

While observational cosmology has recently progressed fast, it revealed a serious dilemma called dark energy: an unknown source of exotic energy with negative pressure driving a current accelerating phase of the universe. All attempts so far to find a convincing theoretical explanation have failed, so that one of the last hopes is the yet to be developed quantum theory of gravity. In this article, loop quantum gravity is considered as a candidate, with an emphasis on properties which might play a role for the dark energy problem. Its basic feature is the discrete structure of space, often associated with quantum theories of gravity on general grounds. This gives rise to well-defined matter Hamiltonian operators and thus sheds light on conceptual questions related to the cosmological constant problem. It also implies typical quantum geometry effects which, from a more phenomenological point of view, may result in dark energy. In particular the latter scenario allows several non-trivial tests which can be made more precise by detailed observations in combination with a quantitative study of numerical quantum gravity. If the speculative possibility of a loop quantum gravitational origin of dark energy turns out to be realized, a program as outlined here will help to hammer out our ideas for a quantum theory of gravity, and at the same time allow predictions for the distant future of our universe.

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