Gravity-wave interferometers as probes of a low-energy effective quantum gravity
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
2009-10-31 v1 Astrophysics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
High Energy Physics - Theory
Abstract
The interferometry-based experimental tests of quantum properties of space-time which the author sketched out in a recent short Letter [Nature 398 (1999) 216] are here discussed in self-contained fashion. Besides providing detailed derivations of the results already announced in the previous Letter, some new results are also derived; in particular, the analysis is extended to a larger class of scenarios for space-time fuzziness and an absolute bound on the measurability of the amplitude of a gravity wave is obtained. It is argued that these studies could be helpful for the search of a theory describing a first stage of partial unification of Gravity and Quantum Mechanics.
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@article{arxiv.gr-qc/9903080,
title = {Gravity-wave interferometers as probes of a low-energy effective quantum gravity},
author = {Giovanni Amelino-Camelia},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/9903080},
year = {2009}
}
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