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Planck constants in the symmetry breaking quantum gravity

Other Condensed Matter 2023-05-02 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

The theory of quantum gravity, in which tetrads emerge as the bilinear combinations of the fermionic field, suggests that in general relativity the interval dsds is dimensionless. Several other approaches to quantum gravity, including the model of superplastic vacuum and BFBF-theories of gravity support this suggestion. The important consequence of such metric dimension is that all the diffeomorphism invariant quantities are dimensionless for any dimension of spacetime. These include the action SS, cosmological constant Λ\Lambda, scalar curvature RR, scalar field Φ\Phi, wave function ψ\psi, etc. The composite fermion approach to quantum gravity suggests that the Planck constant \hbar can be the parameter of the Minkowski metric. Here we extend this suggestion by introducing two Planck constants, bar h and slash h, which are the parameters of the correspondingly time component and space component of the Minkowski metric. The parameters bar h and slash h are invariant only under SO(3)SO(3) transformations, and thus they are not diffeomorphism invariant. As a result they have nonzero dimensions -- the dimension of time for bar h and dimension of length for slash h. Then according to the Weinberg criterion these parameters are not fundamental, and may vary. They also change sign at the topological domain walls resulting from the symmetry breaking.

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@article{arxiv.2304.04235,
  title  = {Planck constants in the symmetry breaking quantum gravity},
  author = {G. E. Volovik},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2304.04235},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

18 pages, no figures, this is further extension of the papers arXiv:2209.15426 and arXiv:2302.08894

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