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Quantum of area from gravitation on complex octonions

General Physics 2008-12-02 v1

Abstract

Using spin 1/2 particle elastic scattering on a fixed target, in a 1/|x| potential on Euclidean metric, a minimum scattering cross section appears from the spin contribution. Interpreted as semi-classical limit of an earlier proposed operator formulation of four dimensional Euclidean quantum gravity, using non-associative complex octonion algebra, this is understood as an area quantum for the observation: Existence of finite (quantized) charges yields a minimum area element of interaction. This suggests that models built on the fundamental assumption of a quantized area element (namely as in Loop Quantum Gravity) may in principle approximate General Relativity in the non-quantum limit.

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@article{arxiv.0812.0212,
  title  = {Quantum of area from gravitation on complex octonions},
  author = {Jens Köplinger},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0812.0212},
  year   = {2008}
}

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6 pages

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