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Quantum geodesics on $\lambda$-Minkowski spacetime

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2022-11-23 v2 High Energy Physics - Theory Quantum Algebra

Abstract

We apply a recent formalism of quantum geodesics to the well-known bicrossproduct model λ\lambda-Minkowski quantum spacetime [xi,t]=ıλpxi[x^i,t]=\imath\lambda_p x^i with its flat quantum metric as a model of quantum gravity effects, with λp\lambda_p the Planck scale. As examples, quantum geodesic flow of a plane wave gets an order λp\lambda_p frequency dependent correction to the classical geodesic velocity. A quantum geodesic flow with classical velocity vv of a Gaussian with width 2β\sqrt{2\beta} initially centred at the origin changes its shape but its centre of mass moves with <x><t>=v(1+λp22β+O(λp3)){<x>\over<t>}=v(1+{\lambda_p^2\over 2\beta}+O(\lambda^3_p)), an order λp2\lambda_p^2 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.

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@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

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