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在量子引力中能观察到混沌吗?

Can chaos be observed in quantum gravity?

Bianca Dittrich, Philipp A. Hoehn, Tim A. Koslowski, Mike I. Nelson

摘要:

完全的广义相对论几乎肯定是“混沌的”。我们认为,这需要一个概念的不可积性:一个通用的广义相对论模型,至少当耦合到宇宙学有趣的物质,可能既不具有可微狄拉克观测值,也没有一个约化的相空间。因此,标准的可观测量概念必须扩展到包括不可微的甚至是不连续的广义可观测量。它们不能携带泊松代数结构,也不允许标准量子化;因此,我们面临着引力可观测量的量子表示问题。这对引力的量子理论有深刻的影响,我们在一个简单的模型中研究了一个具有哈密顿约束的系统,该系统不能完全积分。我们表明,基于标准拓扑的量子化排除了半经典的限制,甚至可以禁止任何解决方案的量子约束。我们提出的解决这个问题的方法是细化拓扑结构,使一个完整的狄拉克观测值集成为连续的。在玩具模型中,事实证明,对聚合物型拓扑结构的细化(例如在回路重力中使用的)是足够的。玩具模型的量子化的基础上,这个更精细的拓扑结构,我们找到了一套完整的量子狄拉克观测值和一个合适的半经典极限。这种策略适用于量子引力的现实候选理论,从而提出了一个长期存在的问题,这意味着量子化的概念本身的分支解决方案。我们的工作揭示了物理学中混沌的一个质的新颖方面,并开辟了一条新的途径,研究混沌的重力,这暗示了深刻的见解量子引力的结构。

英文摘要:

Full general relativity is almost certainly 'chaotic'. We argue that this entails a notion of nonintegrability: a generic general relativistic model, at least when coupled to cosmologically interesting matter, likely possesses neither differentiable Dirac observables nor a reduced phase space. It follows that the standard notion of observable has to be extended to include non-differentiable or even discontinuous generalized observables. These cannot carry Poisson-algebraic structures and do not admit a standard quantization; one thus faces a quantum representation problem of gravitational observables. This has deep consequences for a quantum theory of gravity, which we investigate in a simple model for a system with Hamiltonian constraint that fails to be completely integrable. We show that basing the quantization on standard topology precludes a semiclassical limit and can even prohibit any solutions to the quantum constraints. Our proposed solution to this problem is to refine topology such that a complete set of Dirac observables becomes continuous. In the toy model, it turns out that a refinement to a polymer-type topology, as e.g. used in loop gravity, is sufficient. Basing quantization of the toy model on this finer topology, we find a complete set of quantum Dirac observables and a suitable semiclassical limit. This strategy is applicable to realistic candidate theories of quantum gravity and thereby suggests a solution to a long-standing problem which implies ramifications for the very concept of quantization. Our work reveals a qualitatively novel facet of chaos in physics and opens up a new avenue of research on chaos in gravity which hints at deep insights into the structure of quantum gravity.

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