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arXiv 0908.3061gr-qcquant-ph
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时空的信息论自然紫外截止

Information-theoretic natural ultraviolet cutoff for spacetime

Achim Kempf

摘要:

时空中的场可以同时是离散的和连续的,就像信息可以:已经表明,场在一般的离散点集x_n处所取的振幅λ(x_n)可以足以对所有x重建场λ(x),即如果自然界中存在某种类型的自然紫外线(UV)截止,以及采样点的平均间距是否处于UV截止尺度。在这里,我们将这个信息理论框架推广到时空本身。我们表明,在一个通用的离散点集的欧几里得签名时空的样本可以让一个重建的时空的形状无处不在,下到截止尺度。由此产生的方法可能是有用的量子引力的各种方法。

英文摘要:

Fields in spacetime could be simultaneously discrete and continuous, in the same way that information can: it has been shown that the amplitudes, ϕ(x_n), that a field takes at a generic discrete set of points, x_n, can be sufficient to reconstruct the field ϕ(x) for all x, namely if there exists a certain type of natural ultraviolet (UV) cutoff in nature, and if the average spacing of the sample points is at the UV cutoff scale. Here, we generalize this information-theoretic framework to spacetimes themselves. We show that samples taken at a generic discrete set of points of a Euclidean-signature spacetime can allow one to reconstruct the shape of that spacetime everywhere, down to the cutoff scale. The resulting methods could be useful in various approaches to quantum gravity.

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