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Quantum Fluctuations of Spacetime.
Title:
Quantum Fluctuations of Spacetime.
Author:
Crowell, Lawrence B.
ISBN:
9789812703217
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (386 pages)
Contents:
Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1 Why Quantum Fluctuations of Spacetime? -- 1.1 Quantum Fluctuations and Spacetime -- 1.2 Detecting Quantum Gravity Fluctuations -- 1.3 Connections to Strings and Membranes -- 1.4 Beyond Standard Constructions -- Chapter 2 Quantum Fluctuations and Spacetime -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Fluctuations in Quantum Mechanics -- 2.3 ADM Relativity, the Wheeler-DeWitt Equation and Torsional Flucutations -- 2.4 Thermalized Torsional Fluctuations -- 2.5 Squeezed States, Wormholes and Nascent Cosmologies -- 2.6 Spacetime Fluctuations and Wormholes -- 2.7 The Geometry of Quantum Mechanics -- 2.7.1 Projective Structure in Spacetime and Quantum Mechanics -- 2.7.2 Bell's Inequality, Metrics and Expectation -- 2.7.3 The Hibert Space CP2 and Lorentz Group PSO(5,1) -- 2.7.4 Quantum Geometry and Extended Field Theories -- 2.8 Quantum Computing Backwards in Time and P NP -- 2.9 Summary on Spacetime Fluctuations -- References -- Chapter 3 Detection of Quantum Gravity Fluctuations -- 3.1 Can Quantum Gravity Be Experimentally Tested? -- 3.2 Atomic Detection of Quantum Spacetime Fluctuations -- 3.3 Detecting Virtual Black Holes -- 3.4 Quantum Optical Detection of Quantum Gravity Induced Decoherence -- 3.5 Ring Gyro Test of the Holographic Principle -- 3.6 Measurement of Unruh-Hawking Physics with Bose-Einstein Condensates -- 3.7 Testing Gravitational Squeezing of the Vacuum State -- 3.8 Cosmological Gravity Waves -- 3.9 The Universe as a (all ) = 0 -- References -- Chapter 4: Quantum Gravity Fluctuations, Strings and Two Dimensional D-Branes -- 4.1 Quantum Gravity Fluctuations in Modern Physics -- 4.2 Finite Temperature Theory of Rotating Strings -- 4.3 Nonlinear Spacetime Transformations, Quantum Theory and Gravity -- 4.4 Overview of Basic Topological Field Theory -- 4.5 Supersymmetry and Cohomology of the Horizon Algebra.

4.6 Moduli Space Constructions of Horizons -- 4.7 Brane Dynamics and Black Holes -- 4.8 Supersymmetric Moduli Space -- 4.9 Moduli Spaces With Non-Hausdorff Zariski Topology -- 4.10 Modularity and Fractal Aspects of Moduli with Zariski Topology -- 4.11 Julia Sets and NonHausdorff Measures over Moduli Spaces -- References -- Chapter 5 Topology, Extra Large Dimensions and the Higgs Field -- 5.1 Extra Dimensions and the Horizon D2-Brane and D5-Brane -- 5.2 Time Symmetry and Violations of Topological Quantum Numbers -- 5.3 TEV Physics From D-Branes and the Higgs Field -- 5.4 Quantum Group Structure With Ricci Flows and Three-Manifold Surgery -- References -- Chapter 6 Zeta Functions, Topological Quantum Numbers and M-Theory -- 6.1 Wrapped Spaces and Internal Symmetries -- 6.2 Instantons Between String Types, Topology, and Vacuum Ambiguity -- 6.3 String Types, M-Theory and Octonions -- References -- Chapter 7 The Generalized Uncertainty Principle -- 7.1 The Vacuum Problem -- 7.2 Differential Structure of Fields in Spacetime -- 7.3 Nonlocalizability of Energy and Noncommutative Geometry -- 7.4 Quantization of Fields in Spacetime and Noncommutative Geometry -- 7.5 Connections to One-Loop Quantum Gravity -- 7.6 The Noncommutative Algebra -- 7.7 General Relativity and Quantum Mechanics as Subsets of a Single Theory -- 7.8 A Proposed General Mathematics for the B* Algebra -- 7.9 Concluding Words -- References -- Chapter 8 Octonionic Quantum Gravity -- 8.1 Algebra and Basis Elements -- 8.2 Triality and Right/Left Eigenvectors Over -- 8.3 Quantum Mechanical Interpretation -- 8.4 Eigenvalues, Clifford Algebras and Quaternions -- 8.5 Holographic Principle from the Quantum Theory of Spin -- 8.6 Associative and Co- Associative SubAlgebra and Spacetime -- 8.7 Polyhedra and Jordan Algebraic Representations of Octonions.

8.8 Nonassociative Fields and Topological Supersymmetry -- 8.9 Bohr's Gravitixation of the Quantum -- 8.10 Quantum Black Holes as Strings and Error Correction Algorithms -- 8.11 Quantum States for Hamming and Golay Error Correction Codes -- 8.12 Phase Structure of Black Holes -- 8.13 Higher Polyhedral Representations -- References -- Chapter 9 Physical Law from No Law -- 9.1 Universal Computation In Quantum Cosmology and the Decidability of Cosmic Censorship -- 9.2 PreGeometry and Mathematical Undecidability -- 9.3 Recovering Geometry From PreGeometry -- 9.4 Godel's Theorem In Quantum Mechanics -- 9.5 The Anthropic Cosmological Principle? - Maybe -- References -- Index.
Abstract:
Three key aspects of quantum gravity are considered in this book: phenomenology, potential experimental aspects and foundational theory. The phenomenology is the treatment of metric quantum fluctuations as torsional curves that deviate from classical expectations. This leads to possible experimental configurations that may detect such fluctuations. Most of these proposed experiments are quantum optical measurements of subtle quantum gravity effects in the interaction of photons and atoms. The foundational discussions attempt to find an substratum to string theories, which are motivated by the phenomenological treatment. Quantum gravity is not the quantization of general relativity, but is instead the embedding of quantum theory and gravitation into a more fundamental field theoretic framework.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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