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We argue that the conventional quantum field theory in curved spacetime has a grave drawback: The canonical commutation relations for quantum fields and conjugate momenta do not hold. Thus the conventional theory should be denounced and the…

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By using zero-norm states in the spectrum, we explicitly demonstrate the existence of an infinite number of high energy symmetry structures of the closed bosonic string theory. Each symmetry transformation (except those generated by…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 Jen-Chi Lee

In the present work, we study the noncommutative version of a quantum cosmology model. The model has a Friedmann-Robertson-Walker geometry, the matter content is a radiative perfect fluid and the spatial sections have zero constant…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-05-05 G. Oliveira-Neto , M. Silva de Oliveira , G. A. Monerat , E. V. Corrêa Silva

We argue that scale invariance is not anomalous in quantum field theory, provided it is broken cosmologically. We consider a locally scale invariant extension of the Standard Model of particle physics and argue that it fits both the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-08-19 Pankaj Jain , Subhadip Mitra

Conserved quantities are obtained and analyzed in the new models with global scale invariance recently proposed. Such models allow for non tivial scalar field potentials and masses for particles, so that the scale symmetry must be broken…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 E. I. Guendelman

We propose a scheme leading to a non-perturbative definition of lattice field theories which are scale-invariant on the quantum level. A key idea of the construction is the replacement of the lattice spacing by a propagating dynamical field…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-12-09 Mikhail E. Shaposhnikov , Igor I. Tkachev

In general quantum systems there are two kinds of spacetime modes, those that fluctuate and those that do not. Fluctuating modes have normalizable wavefunctions. In the context of 2D gravity and ``non-critical'' string theory these are…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-09-15 Nathan Seiberg , Stephen Shenker

In quantum mechanics without application of any superselection rule to the set of the observables, a closed quantum system temporally evolves unitarily, and this Lorentzian regime is characterized by von Neumann entropy of exactly zero. In…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-04-03 Eiji Konishi

In arXiv:2603.18175, the authors argue, based on numerical studies of particular cases, that the quantum damping of cosmological shear in a modified loop quantum cosmological model (mLQC-I) that was recently found in arXiv:2510.14021 is not…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-13 Wen-Cong Gan , Leila L. Graef , Rudnei O. Ramos , Gustavo S. Vicente , Anzhong Wang

Any effort to localise an event in the vicinity of the Planck length scale, only where the quantum gravitational effects are predicted to be observed, will invariably result in gravitational collapse. One must postulate noncommutative (NC)…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-11-14 Anwesha Chakraborty

We consider scalar perturbations of energy-density for a class of cosmological models where an early phase of accelerated expansion evolves, without any fine-tuning for graceful exit, towards the standard Friedman eras of observed universe.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-05-10 S. Capozziello , G. Lambiase , G. Scarpetta

Recent work has shown that complex quantum field theory emerges as a statistical mechanical approximation to an underlying noncommutative operator dynamics based on a total trace action. In this dynamics, scale invariance of the trace…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-26 Stephen L. Adler

We consider the propagation of classical and quantum strings on cosmological space-times which interpolate from a collapsing phase to an expanding phase. We begin by considering the classical propagation of strings on space-times with…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 Andrew J. Tolley

We present a short review of possible applications of the Wheeler-De Witt equation to cosmological models based on the low-energy string effective action, and characterised by an initial regime of asymptotically flat, low energy, weak…

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We consider the evolution of perturbations to a flat FRW universe that arise from a ``stiff source,'' such as a self-ordering cosmic field that forms in a global symmetry-breaking phase transition and evolves via the Kibble mechanism.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-22 Andrew H. Jaffe

The quantum to classical transition of fluctuations in the early universe is still not completely understood. Some headway has been made incorporating the effects of decoherence and the squeezing of states, though the methods and procedures…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-05-24 Fulvio Melia

We examine the scaling properties of an evolving network of strings in Minkowski spacetime and study the evolution of length scales in terms of a 3-scale model proposed by Austin, Copeland and Kibble (ACK). We find good qualitative and some…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Graham R. Vincent , Mark Hindmarsh , Mairi Sakellariadou

In a natural extension of the relativity principle we argue that a quantum theory of gravity involves two fundamental scales associated with both dynamical space-time as well as dynamical momentum space. This view of quantum gravity is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-19 Laurent Freidel , Robert G. Leigh , Djordje Minic

We revisit the no-scale mechanism in the context of the simplest no-scale supergravity extension of the Standard Model. This model has the usual five-dimensional parameter space plus an additional parameter $\xi_{3/2}\equiv…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-09-25 S. Kelley , J. Lopez , D. Nanopoulos , A. Zichichi

We present a string theory construction in which the particle physics contributions to the one-loop vacuum energy exactly cancel, whilst the gravitational contributions are suppressed in the size of one or two large extra dimensions. This…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-03-24 Emilian Dudas , Susha Parameswaran , Marco Serra