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We investigate the fractal structure of $2d$ quantum gravity, both for pure gravity and for gravity coupled to multiple gaussian fields and for gravity coupled to Ising spins. The roughness of the surfaces is described in terms of baby…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-22 J. Ambjorn , S. Jain , G. Thorleifsson

We study quantum corrections to projectable Horava gravity with $z = 2$ scaling in 2+1 dimensions. Using the background field method, we utilize a non-singular gauge to compute the anomalous dimension of the cosmological constant at one…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-06-14 Tom Griffin , Kevin T. Grosvenor , Charles M. Melby-Thompson , Ziqi Yan

We present a new framework for a Lagrangian description of conformal field theories in various dimensions based on a local version of d+2-dimensional conformal space. The results include a true gauge theory of conformal gravity in d=(1,3)…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 C. R. Preitschopf , M. A. Vasiliev

It is shown that quantum uncertainty of motion in systems controlled mainly by gravity generally grows with orbital timescale $H^{-1}$, and dominates classical motion for trajectories separated by distances less than $\approx H^{-3/5}$ in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-04-17 Craig J. Hogan

Classical gravity coupled to a CFT$_4$ (matter) is considered. The effect of the quantum dynamics of matter on gravity is studied around maximally symmetric spaces (flat, de Sitter and Anti de Sitter). The structure of the graviton…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-12-11 Jewel K. Ghosh , Elias Kiritsis , Francesco Nitti , Valentin Nourry

A central problem in formulating a theory of quantum gravity is to determine the size and structure of the Hilbert space of black holes. Here we use a quantum dynamical Krylov complexity approach to calculate the Hilbert space dimension of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-02-04 Vijay Balasubramanian , Rathindra Nath Das , Johanna Erdmenger , Jonathan Karl , Herman Verlinde

A full (triangular) quantum deformation of so(3,2) is presented by considering this algebra as the conformal algebra of the 2+1 dimensional Minkowskian spacetime. Non-relativistic contractions are analysed and used to obtain quantum Hopf…

q-alg · Mathematics 2008-11-26 Francisco J. Herranz

While numerous examples of fractal spaces may be found in various fields of science, the flow of time is typically assumed to be one-dimensional and smooth. Here we present a metamaterial-based physical system, which can be described by…

Optics · Physics 2012-03-22 Igor I. Smolyaninov

In this paper, we present a second partial solution for the problem of cardinality calculation of the set of fractals for its subcategory of the random virtual ones. Consistent with the deterministic case, we show that for the given…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-06-07 Mohsen Soltanifar

The gravitational field around an astrophysical black hole (BH) is thought to be described by the Kerr spacetime, which is a solution of the Einstein equation. Signatures of binary black hole (BBH) coalescence in gravitational waves (GW)…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-12-03 Debtroy Das , Swarnim Shashank , Cosimo Bambi

A dynamical aspect of quantum gravity on de Sitter spacetime is investigated by holography or the dS/CFT correspondence. We show that de Sitter spacetime emerges from a free Sp(N) vector model by complexifying the ghost fields and flowing…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-04-10 Shuichi Yokoyama

We study the fractional gravity for spacetimes with non-integer dimensions. Our constructions are based on a geometric formalism with the fractional Caputo derivative and integral calculus adapted to nonolonomic distributions. This allows…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2012-04-20 Sergiu I. Vacaru

We investigate the dephasing suffered by a nonrelativistic quantum particle within a conformally fluctuating spacetime geometry. Starting from a minimally coupled massive Klein-Gordon field, the low velocity limit yields an effective…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-07-24 Paolo M. Bonifacio , Charles H. -T. Wang , J. Tito Mendonca , Robert Bingham

In the Chern-Simons formulation of Einstein gravity in 2+1 dimensions the phase space of gravity is the moduli space of flat G-connections, where G is a typically non-compact Lie group which depends on the signature of space-time and the…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Bernd J Schroers

We examine a possibility to introduce a non-trivial classical background metric into the 2-d Liouville gravity theory. The classical background appears as a part of the Weyl factor of the physical metric of 2-d surfaces with some conformal…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 N. Ano , T. Suzuki

A two-loop (cylinder) amplitude of the 2d pure gravity theory is obtained in the proper-time gauge ($g_{00}=1$, $g_{01}=g_{10}=0$) in the continuum formulation. The constraint $T_{01}=0$ is solved and used to reduce the problem of field…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-22 Ryuichi Nakayama

The field equations of the recent nonlocal generalization of Einstein's theory of gravitation are presented in a form that is reminiscent of general relativity. The implications of the nonlocal field equations are studied in the case of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-05-24 Donato Bini , Bahram Mashhoon

Three dimensional Einstein gravity with negative cosmological constant -1/\ell^2 deformed by a gravitational Chern-Simons action with coefficient 1/\mu is studied in an asymptotically AdS_3 spacetime. It is argued to violate unitary or…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-04-06 Wei Li , Wei Song , Andrew Strominger

The two dimensional substructure of general relativity and gravity, and the two dimensional geometry of quantum effect by black hole are disclosed. Then the canonical quantization of the two dimensional theory of gravity is performed. It is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-02-03 F. Ghaboussi

We propose a codimension two holography between a gravitational theory on a $d+1$ dimensional wedge spacetime and a $d-1$ dimensional CFT which lives on the corner of the wedge. Formulating this as a generalization of AdS/CFT, we explain…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-01-21 Ibrahim Akal , Yuya Kusuki , Tadashi Takayanagi , Zixia Wei