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Detecting quantum gravity in the sky

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2017-10-24 v2 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

Getting signatures of quantum gravity is one of the topical lines of research in modern theoretical physics and cosmology. This short review faces this challenge under a novel perspective. Instead of separating quantum-gravity effects of a specific model between UV and IR regimes, we consider a general feature, possibly common to many frameworks, where all scales are affected and spacetime geometry is characterized by a complex critical exponent. This leaves a log-oscillating modulation pattern in the cosmic microwave background spectrum and gives a unique opportunity, illustrated with the example of a multi-fractional theory, to test quantum gravities at cosmological scales.

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@article{arxiv.1709.07845,
  title  = {Detecting quantum gravity in the sky},
  author = {Gianluca Calcagni},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1709.07845},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

4 pages, 1 figure. In Proceedings of EPS-HEP 2017, European Physical Society conference on High Energy Physics, July 5-12, 2017, Venice, Italy. v2: minor corrections to match the published version (https://pos.sissa.it/314/033/)

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