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Modified commutation relationships from the Berry-Keating program

High Energy Physics - Theory 2019-01-28 v3 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology Quantum Physics

Abstract

Current approaches to quantum gravity suggest there should be a modification of the standard quantum mechanical commutator, [x^,p^]=i[{\hat x} , {\hat p}] = i \hbar. Typical modifications are phenomenological and designed to result in a minimal length scale. As a motivating principle for the modification of the position and momentum commutator, we assume the validity of a version of the Bender-Brody-M\"uller variant of the Berry-Keating approach to the Riemann hypothesis. We arrive at a family of modified position and momentum operators, and their associated modified commutator, which lead to a minimal length scale. Additionally, this larger family generalizes the Bender-Brody-M\"uller approach to the Riemann hypothesis.

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@article{arxiv.1810.03976,
  title  = {Modified commutation relationships from the Berry-Keating program},
  author = {Michael Bishop and Erick Aiken and Douglas Singleton},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1810.03976},
  year   = {2019}
}

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