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A new functional calculus, developed recently for a fully non-perturbative treatment of quantum gravity, is used to begin a systematic construction of a quantum theory of geometry. Regulated operators corresponding to areas of 2-surfaces…

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Classical thermodynamics admits a geometric formulation in which work is associated with areas enclosed by cycles in state space. Whether an analogous structure persists in driven, dissipative quantum systems remains an open question. Here…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-30 Eric R. Bittner

We argue that there exists an operational way to establish the observability of the notions of space and time. Specifically, we propose a theory-independent protocol for a gedanken-experiment, whose outcome is a signal establishing the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-26 Nikola Paunkovic , Marko Vojinovic

In this paper we will analyse the inner product for gauge theories in de Sitter spacetime. This will be done by analysing an Euclidean version of the de Sitter metric. Thus, the de Sitter metric will be related to the metric on a…

General Physics · Physics 2014-08-28 Asloob Ahmad Rather , Ashaq Hussain Sofi , Shabir Ahmad Akhoon , Anil Maini

The question that guides our discussion is how did the geometry and particles come into being. The present theory reveals primordial deeper structures underlying fundamental concepts of contemporary physics. We begin with a drastic revision…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 G. T. Ter-Kazarian

We show how to formulate physical theory taking as a starting point the set of states (geometric approach). We discuss the relation of this formulation to the conventional approach to classical and quantum mechanics and the theory of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-11-24 Albert Schwarz

Quantum mechanics is among the most important and successful mathematical model for describing our physical reality. The traditional formulation of quantum mechanics is linear and algebraic. In contrast classical mechanics is a geometrical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-11-03 Hoshang Heydari

In the geometric approach to define complexity, operator complexity is defined as the distance on the operator space. In this paper, based on the analogy with the circuit complexity, the operator size is adopted as the metric of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-08-23 Qi-Feng Wu

Spinors have played an essential but enigmatic role in modern physics since their discovery. Now that quantum-gravitational theories have started to become available, the inclusion of a description of spin in the development is natural and…

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We discuss some general properties of quantum gravity in De Sitter space. It has been argued that the Hilbert space is of finite dimension. This suggests a macroscopic argument that General Relativity cannot be quantized -- unless it is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Edward Witten

The geometry of the symplectic structures and Fubini-Study metric is discussed. Discussion in the paper addresses geometry of Quantum Mechanics in the classical phase space. Also, geometry of Quantum Mechanics in the projective Hilbert…

General Physics · Physics 2008-09-09 Aalok Pandya

Exactly soluble models can serve as excellent tools to explore conceptual issues in non-perturbative quantum gravity. In perturbative approaches, it is only the two radiative modes of the linearized gravitational field that are quantized.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-11-04 Abhay Ashtekar

An earlier paper [1] presented a gravity theory based on the optics of de Broglie waves rather than curved space-time. While the universe's geometry is flat, it agrees with the standard tests of general relativity. A second paper [2] showed…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Kris Krogh

It is hard to imagine curved spacetimes of General Relativity. A simple but powerful way how to achieve this is visualizing them via embedding diagrams of both ordinary geometry and optical reference geometry. They facilitate to gain an…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-15 Stanislav Hledik , Zdenek Stuchlik , Alois Cipko

Using minimalist assumptions we develop a natural functional decomposition for the spacetime metric, and explicit tractable formulae for the surface gravities, in arbitrary stationary circular (PT symmetric) axisymmetric spacetimes. We…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-05-30 Joshua Baines , Matt Visser

Using the Functional Renormalization Group approach we construct effective quantum spacetime geometries by self-consistently deforming the classical Schwarzschild-de Sitter black-hole solution. This involves studying how quantum…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-03-19 Alfio Bonanno , Mariano Cadoni , Mirko Pitzalis , Andrea Pierfrancesco Sanna

We sketch the construction of a quantum model of 3 dimensional de Sitter space, based on the Covariant Entropy Principle and the observation that semi-classical physics suggests the possibility of a consistent theory of a finite number of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-01-31 Sidan A , Tom Banks , Willy Fischler

We investigate the quantum Ricci curvature, which was introduced in earlier work, in full, four-dimensional quantum gravity, formulated nonperturbatively in terms of Causal Dynamical Triangulations (CDT). A key finding of the CDT approach…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-12-02 N. Klitgaard , R. Loll

Some general remarks are made about the quantum theory of scalar fields and the definition of momentum in curved space. Special emphasis is given to field theory in anti-de Sitter space, as it represents a maximally symmetric space-time of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-02-03 Simon Davis

Equatorial motion of test particles in the Kerr-de Sitter spacetimes is considered. Circular orbits are determined, their properties are discussed for both the black-hole and naked-singularity spacetimes, and their relevance for thin…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Z. Stuchlik , P. Slany