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arXiv 0710.3276gr-qchep-th
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群场论作为量子时空流体的微观描述:量子引力中连续统的新观点

Group field theory as the microscopic description of the quantum spacetime fluid: a new perspective on the continuum in quantum gravity

Daniele Oriti

摘要:

介绍了非微扰量子引力的群场论(GFT)形式,并将其作为其他几种量子引力方法,即圈量子引力和单纯量子引力方法的潜在统一框架.然后,我们主张,并详细介绍了我们认为是一个新的GFT的角度来看,连续时空的出现从离散的量子结构,基于量子空间作为一个凝聚态系统的想法。我们提出了一个更具体的,尽管仍然非常试探性的建议,GFT的相关阶段对应于连续:一个玻色-爱因斯坦凝聚体的GFT量子。最后,我们勾勒出如何实现的建议,其有效的动力学可以在GFT设置中提取,并与连续引力理论进行比较。

英文摘要:

We introduce the group field theory (GFT) formalism for non-perturbative quantum gravity, and present it as a potential unifying framework for several other quantum gravity approaches, i.e. loop quantum gravity and simplicial quantum gravity ones. We then argue in favor of and present in detail what we believe is a new GFT perspective on the emergence of continuum spacetime from discrete quantum structures, based on the idea of quantum space as a condensed matter system. We put forward a more specific, albeit still very much tentative, proposal for the relevant phase of the GFT corresponding to the continuum: a Bose-Einstein condensate of GFT quanta. Finally, we sketch how the proposal may be realised and its effective dynamics could be extracted in the GFT setting and compared with continuum gravity theories.

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