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Algebraic description of spacetime foam

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2009-11-07 v2 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

A mathematical formalism for treating spacetime topology as a quantum observable is provided. We describe spacetime foam entirely in algebraic terms. To implement the correspondence principle we express the classical spacetime manifold of general relativity and the commutative coordinates of its events by means of appropriate limit constructions.

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@article{arxiv.gr-qc/0102048,
  title  = {Algebraic description of spacetime foam},
  author = {Ioannis Raptis and Roman R. Zapatrin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/0102048},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

34 pages, LaTeX2e, the section concerning classical spacetimes in the limit essentially corrected

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