QUANTUM METRIC-SPACES AS A MODEL FOR PREGEOMETRY

被引:10
作者
ALVAREZ, E [1 ]
CESPEDES, J [1 ]
VERDAGUER, E [1 ]
机构
[1] UNIV AUTONOMA BARCELONA,FIS TEOR GRP,E-08193 BARCELONA,SPAIN
来源
PHYSICAL REVIEW D | 1992年 / 45卷 / 06期
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D O I
10.1103/PhysRevD.45.2033
中图分类号
P1 [天文学];
学科分类号
0704 ;
摘要
A new arena for the dynamics of spacetime is proposed, in which the basic quantum variable is the two-point distance on a metric space. The scaling dimension (that is, the Kolmogorov capacity) in the neighborhood of each point then defines in a natural way a local concept of dimension. We study our model in the region of parameter space in which the resulting spacetime is not too different from a smooth manifold.
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页码:2033 / 2043
页数:11
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