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Is singularity resolution trivial?

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2022-04-27 v1 High Energy Physics - Theory Quantum Physics

Abstract

Many non-trivial ideas have been proposed to resolve singularities in quantum gravity. In this short note I argue that singularity resolution can be trivial in gravitational path integrals, because geodesically incomplete singular spacetimes are usually not included in the sum. For theories where this holds, there is no need to develop non-trivial ideas on singularity resolution. Instead, efforts should better be directed to understand tunneling processes and complex-valued spacetimes.

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@article{arxiv.2204.12304,
  title  = {Is singularity resolution trivial?},
  author = {Ding Jia},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2204.12304},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

6 pages, 2 figures, comments welcome

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