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Can noncommutativity resolve the Big-Bang singularity?

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-11-10 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

A possible way to resolve the singularities of general relativity is proposed based on the assumption that the description of space-time using commuting coordinates is not valid above a certain fundamental scale. Beyond that scale it is assumed that the space-time has noncommutative structure leading in turn to a resolution of the singularity. As a first attempt towards realizing the above programme a modification of the Kasner metric is constructed which is commutative only at large time scales. At small time scales, near the singularity, the commutation relations among the space coordinates diverge. We interpret this result as meaning that the singularity has been completely delocalized.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0306136,
  title  = {Can noncommutativity resolve the Big-Bang singularity?},
  author = {M. Maceda and J. Madore and P. Manousselis and G. Zoupanos},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0306136},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

Latex, 13 pages, 2 figures, accepted for publication in EPJC