Quantum geodesics on $\lambda$-Minkowski spacetime
Abstract
We apply a recent formalism of quantum geodesics to the well-known bicrossproduct model -Minkowski quantum spacetime with its flat quantum metric as a model of quantum gravity effects, with the Planck scale. As examples, quantum geodesic flow of a plane wave gets an order frequency dependent correction to the classical geodesic velocity. A quantum geodesic flow with classical velocity of a Gaussian with width initially centred at the origin changes its shape but its centre of mass moves with , an order correction. This implies, at least within perturbation theory, that a `point particle' cannot be modelled as an infinitely sharp Gaussian due to quantum gravity corrections. For contrast, we also look at quantum geodesics on the noncommutative torus with a 2D curved weak quantum Levi-Civita connection.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2112.12861,
title = {Quantum geodesics on $\lambda$-Minkowski spacetime},
author = {Chengcheng Liu and Shahn Majid},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2112.12861},
year = {2022}
}
Comments
28 pages amslatex, 3 pdf figures; some small corrections and clarified the notation in a couple of places