Quantum gravity effects on space-time
arXiv:1002.2618
Abstract
General relativity promotes space-time to a physical, dynamical object subject to equations of motion. Quantum gravity, accordingly, must provide a quantum framework for space-time, applicable on the smallest distance scales. Just like generic states in quantum mechanics, quantum space-time structures may be highly counter-intuitive. But if low-energy effects can be extracted, they shed considerable light on the implications to be expected for a dynamical quantum space-time. Loop quantum gravity has provided several such effects, but even in the symmetry-reduced setting of loop quantum cosmology no complete picture of effective space-time geometries describing especially the regime near the big bang has been obtained. The overall situation regarding space-time structures and cosmology is reviewed here, with an emphasis on the role of dynamical states, effective equations, and general covariance.
24 pages, 4 figures, plenary talk at The Nineteenth Workshop on General Relativity and Gravitation in Japan (JGRG19) at Rikkyo University, Dec 2009
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