Finite-resolution measurement induces topological curvature defects in spacetime
Abstract
We show that regularizing -dimensional Minkowski spacetime with a finite-resolution Gaussian probe, analogous to Weyl-Heisenberg (Gabor) signal analysis and related quantization, induces a curved geometry with a topological defect. The regularized metric replaces by in the angular part, where is the resolution scale from the width of the Gaussian probe. The resulting Gaussian curvature integrates to , independently of . This curvature defines an effective stress-energy source with universal total energy . The limit leads to distributional Dirac-delta curvature and to appearance of topological defect at the origin. These results show that finite spatial resolution measurement does not merely smooth singularities but can shape spacetime geometry.
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@article{arxiv.2601.13491,
title = {Finite-resolution measurement induces topological curvature defects in spacetime},
author = {Ewa Czuchry and Jean-Pierre Gazeau},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2601.13491},
year = {2026}
}