Brahma, Suddhasattwa (2017) Emergence of time in Loop Quantum Gravity. In: UNSPECIFIED.
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Loop quantum gravity has formalized a robust scheme in resolving classical singularities in a variety of
symmetry-reduced models of gravity. In this essay, we demonstrate that the same quantum correction which is crucial for singularity resolution is also responsible for the phenomenon of signature change in these models, whereby one effectively transitions from a 'fuzzy' Euclidean space to a Lorentzian space-time in deep quantum regimes. As long as one uses a quantization scheme which respects covariance, holonomy corrections from loop quantum gravity generically leads to non-singular signature change, thereby giving an emergent notion of time in the theory. Robustness of this mechanism is established by comparison across large class of midisuperspace models and allowing for diverse quantization ambiguities. Conceptual and mathematical consequences of such an underlying quantum-deformed space-time are briefly discussed.
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| Keywords: | Loop quantum gravity, signature-change, singularity-resolution, deformed covariance | ||||||
| Subjects: | Specific Sciences > Physics > Quantum Gravity Specific Sciences > Physics > Relativity Theory Specific Sciences > Physics > Symmetries/Invariances |
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| Depositing User: | Dr. Suddhasattwa Brahma | ||||||
| Date Deposited: | 26 Jun 2017 13:24 | ||||||
| Last Modified: | 26 Jun 2017 13:24 | ||||||
| Item ID: | 13158 | ||||||
| Subjects: | Specific Sciences > Physics > Quantum Gravity Specific Sciences > Physics > Relativity Theory Specific Sciences > Physics > Symmetries/Invariances |
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| Date: | 26 June 2017 | ||||||
| URI: | https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/13158 |
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