Path integral duality modified propagators in spacetimes with constant curvature
Abstract
The hypothesis of path integral duality provides a prescription to evaluate the propagator of a free, quantum scalar field in a given classical background, taking into account the existence of a fundamental length, say, the Planck length, , in a {\it locally Lorentz invariant manner}. We use this prescription to evaluate the duality modified propagators in spacetimes with {\it constant curvature} (exactly in the case of one spacetime, and in the Gaussian approximation for another two), and show that: (i) the modified propagators are ultra violet finite, (ii) the modifications are {\it non-perturbative} in , and (iii) seems to behave like a `zero point length' of spacetime intervals such that , where is the geodesic distance between the two spacetime points and , and the angular brackets denote (a suitable) average over the quantum gravitational fluctuations. We briefly discuss the implications of our results.
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Cite
@article{arxiv.0904.3217,
title = {Path integral duality modified propagators in spacetimes with constant curvature},
author = {Dawood Kothawala and L. Sriramkumar and S. Shankaranarayanan and T. Padmanabhan},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0904.3217},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
v1. 10 pages, no figures; v2. 11 pages, acknowledgments added