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Building non commutative spacetimes at the Planck length for Friedmann flat cosmologies

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2014-09-01 v5 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We propose physically motivated spacetime uncertainty relations (STUR) for flat Friedmann-Lema\^{i}tre cosmologies. We show that the physical features of these STUR crucially depend on whether a particle horizon is present or not. In particular, when this is the case we deduce the existence of a maximal value for the Hubble rate (or equivalently for the matter density), thus providing an indication that quantum effects may rule out a pointlike big bang singularity. Finally, we costruct a concrete realisation of the corresponding quantum Friedmann spacetime in terms of operators on a Hilbert space.

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@article{arxiv.1308.2767,
  title  = {Building non commutative spacetimes at the Planck length for Friedmann flat cosmologies},
  author = {Luca Tomassini and Stefano Viaggiu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1308.2767},
  year   = {2014}
}

Comments

Final version published in Class. Quantum Grav