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Foamy structure of spacetime

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2009-10-26 v3

Abstract

We examine spectrum of the physical volume operator within the non-standard loop quantum cosmology. The spectrum is discrete with equally distant levels defining a quantum of the volume. The discreteness may imply a foamy structure of spacetime at semi-classical level which may be detected in astro-cosmo observations.

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@article{arxiv.0907.4647,
  title  = {Foamy structure of spacetime},
  author = {Przemyslaw Malkiewicz and Wlodzimierz Piechocki},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0907.4647},
  year   = {2009}
}

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5 pages, no figures, improved version

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