Background-independent quantization and the uncertainty principle

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作者
Hossain, Golam Mortuza [1 ]
Husain, Viqar [1 ]
Seahra, Sanjeev S. [1 ]
机构
[1] Univ New Brunswick, Dept Math & Stat, Fredericton, NB E3B 5A3, Canada
基金
加拿大自然科学与工程研究理事会;
关键词
QUANTUM-MECHANICS; MINIMAL LENGTH; GRAVITY; SPACE;
D O I
10.1088/0264-9381/27/16/165013
中图分类号
P1 [天文学];
学科分类号
0704 ;
摘要
It is shown that polymer quantization leads to a modified uncertainty principle similar to that motivated by string theory and non-commutative geometry. When applied to quantum field theory on general background spacetimes, corrections to the uncertainty principle acquire a metric dependence. For Friedmann-Robertson-Walker cosmology this translates to a scale factor dependence which gives a large effect in the early Universe.
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