Constraining non-commutative space-time from GW150914
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
2016-11-22 v2 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
High Energy Physics - Theory
Abstract
The gravitational wave signal GW150914, recently detected by LIGO and Virgo collaborations, is used to place a bound on the scale of quantum fuzziness of non-commutative space-time. We show that the leading non-commutative correction to the phase of the gravitational waves produced by a binary system appears at the 2nd order of the post- Newtonian expansion. This correction is proportional to , where is the antisymmetric tensor of non-commutativity. To comply with GW150914 data, we find that , namely less than one order of magnitude above the Planck scale. This is the most stringent bound on non-commutative scale, exceeding the previous constraints from particle physics processes by orders of magnitude.
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@article{arxiv.1607.03776,
title = {Constraining non-commutative space-time from GW150914},
author = {Archil Kobakhidze and Cyril Lagger and Adrian Manning},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1607.03776},
year = {2016}
}
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18 pages