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We consider a model of modified gravity from the nonperturbative quantization of a metric. We obtain the modified gravitational field equations and the modified conservational equations. We apply it to the FLRW spacetime and find that due…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-05-20 Rong-Jia Yang

Beginning with the Pauli-Fierz theory, we construct a model for multi-graviton theory. Couplings between gravitons belonging to nearest-neighbor ``theory spaces'' lead to a discrete mass spectrum. Our model coincides with the Kaluza-Klein…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 Nahomi Kan , Kiyoshi Shiraishi

In this paper we study the effects of quantum scalar field vacuum fluctuations on scalar test particles in an analog model for the Friedmann-Robertson-Walker spatially flat geometry. In this scenario, the cases with one and two perfectly…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-05-03 C. H. G. Bessa , V. B. Bezerra , E. R. Bezerra de Mello , H. F. Mota

In the framework of quantum gravity propagating in large extra dimensions, the effects of virtual Kaluza-Klein gravitons on the imaginary part of the amplitude of the process e+ e- --> f f-bar are analyzed at the Z-pole. Notably, the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-07 Anindya Datta , Emidio Gabrielli , Barbara Mele

In order to investigate the phenomenological implications of allowing gauge fields to propagate in warped spaces of more than five dimensions, we consider a toy model of a space warped by the presence of a anisotropic bulk cosmological…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-01-05 Paul R. Archer

Compactification of the 5-dimensional Kaluza-Klein space-time geometry is considered. The space-time geometry is supposed to be discrete, uniform and isotropic. It is shown, that consideration of the space-time geometry as a physical…

General Physics · Physics 2011-05-13 Yuri A. Rylov

The regularized vacuum fluctuation related to a conformally coupled massless scalar field defined on a space-time with dynamical horizon is computed with respect a radially moving observer in a generic flat Friedmann-Robertson-Walker…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-04-23 Giovanni Acquaviva , Luca Bonetti , Luciano Vanzo , Sergio Zerbini

The one-loop effects of vacuum polarization induced by untwisted fermions in QED in a nonsimply connected space-time with topology $S^{1}\times R^{3}$ are investigated. It is found that photon propagation in this system is anisotropic,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-07 E. J. Ferrer , V. de la Incera , A. Romeo

Many theories beyond the Standard Model include extra dimensions, though these have yet to be directly observed. In this work we consider the possibility of a compactification mechanism which both allows extra dimensions and is compatible…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-04-26 Eleni-Alexandra Kontou , Jose J. Blanco-Pillado , Mark P. Hertzberg , Ali Masoumi

We show that electric fields in compactified spaces may produce Kaluza-Klein (KK) particles even when the energy of electric fields is smaller than KK scale. As an illustrating example, we consider a charged massless complex scalar coupled…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-09-04 Yusuke Yamada

Interaction of bulk gravitons to Standard Model particles is examined in the scenario of warped extra dimension. It is found that the length of the extra dimension is of physical importance as it determines the decay widths of graviton…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Sanghyeon Chang , Masahiro Yamaguchi

Though Quantum SuperString Theory has shown promise, there are some puzzling features like the extra dimensions, which are curled up in the Kaluza-Klein sense. On the other hand a recent formulation of what may be called Quantized Fractal…

General Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 B. G. Sidharth

We study linearized graviton in the presence of a four-dimensional cosmological constant in two brane models with a warped extra dimension. In explicit models including bulk scalar fields, we calculate the masses of Kaluza-Klein modes of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Naohiro Muta , Nobuhiro Uekusa

We consider the general expressions for the time delay of photons of different energies in the framework of multi-dimensional cosmological models. In models with compactified extra-dimensions (Kaluza-Klein type models), the main source of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 T. Harko , K. S. Cheng

Quantum-gravity renders the space-time dimension to depend on the size of region; it monotonically increases with the size of region and asymptotically approaches four for large distances. This effect was discovered in numerical simulations…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-02-17 Michael Maziashvili

We consider the Einstein-Hilbert action without cosmological constant in 5-dimensions and implement the Kaluza-Klein (KK) reduction by compactifying the fifth direction on a circle of small but finite radius. For non-zero compactification…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-10-24 O-Kab Kwon , Seokcheon Lee , D. D. Tolla

Noncommutative spacetimes are a proposed effective description of the low-energy regime of Quantum Gravity. Defining the microcausality relations of a scalar quantum field theory on the $\kappa$-Minkowski noncommutative spacetime allows us…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-11-05 Flavio Mercati , Matteo Sergola

Quantum fluctuations of the vacuum stress-energy tensor are highly non-Gaussian, and can have unexpectedly large effects on spacetime geometry. In this paper, we study a two-dimensional dilaton gravity model coupled to a conformal field, in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-12-18 S. Carlip , Ricardo A. Mosna , J. P. M. Pitelli

In this paper, the basic quantum field equations of free particle with 0-spin, 1-spin (for case of massless and mass $>$ 0) and 1/2 spin are derived from Einstein equations under modified Kaluza-Klein metric, it shows that the equations of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Xiaodong Chen

If Kaluza-Klein ideas were correct as an explanation of Yang-Mills and General Relativity on spacetime, the extra fibre geometry would have to be a sphere of constant size of the order of 10 Planck lengths, hence subject to quantum gravity…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-07-30 Chengcheng Liu , Shahn Majid