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arXiv 1604.00541gr-qchep-th
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重力波对量子时空的启示

What gravity waves are telling about quantum spacetime

Michele Arzano, Gianluca Calcagni

摘要:

我们讨论了由量子引力激发的各种修正的色散关系,这些色散关系可能会影响最近观测到的事件GW 150914的引力波信号的传播。我们发现,由特征量子引力质量尺度$M$的数据设置的界限太弱,约束这些情况下,在一般情况下,远远弱于预期的$M> 10^4\,\text{eV}$的色散关系线性修正$1/M$。我们通过给出$M$的下界,加上来自量子能层大小约束的上界来说明这个问题。我们还表明,一个唯象色散关系$ω^2 = k^2(1+αk^n/M^n)$是兼容的观察,并在同一时间,有一个唯象可行的质量$M>10\,\text{TeV}$只有在相当严格的范围$0<n<0.68$。值得注意的是,这是多尺度时空的领域,而不是已知的量子引力模型。

英文摘要:

We discuss various modified dispersion relations motivated by quantum gravity which might affect the propagation of the recently observed gravitational-wave signal of the event GW150914. We find that the bounds set by the data on the characteristic quantum-gravity mass scale $M$ are too weak to constrain these scenarios and, in general, much weaker than the expected $M> 10^4\,\text{eV}$ for a correction to the dispersion relation linear in $1/M$. We illustrate this issue by giving lower bounds on $M$, plus an upper bound coming from constraints on the size of a quantum ergosphere. We also show that a phenomenological dispersion relation $ω^2 = k^2(1+αk^n/M^n)$ is compatible with observations and, at the same time, has a phenomenologically viable mass $M>10\,\text{TeV}$ only in the quite restrictive range $0<n<0.68$. Remarkably, this is the domain of multiscale spacetimes but not of known quantum-gravity models.

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