Signature-change events in emergent spacetimes with anisotropic scaling

Details Signature-change events in emergent spacetimes with anisotropic scaling Signature-change events in emergent spacetimes with anisotropic scaling

2009-05-28

arxiv.org/abs/0905.4530v1

J.Phys.Conf.Ser.189:012046,2009

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Based on a presentation by Silke Weinfurtner at the NEB XIII conference in Thessaloniki in June 2008; 9 pages

Scientific paper

10.1088/1742-6596/189/1/012046

We investigate the behaviour of quantum fields coupled to a spacetime geometry exhibiting finite regions of Euclidean (Riemannian) signature. Although from a gravity perspective this situation might seem somewhat far fetched, we will demonstrate its direct physical relevance for an explicitly realizable condensed matter system whose linearized perturbations experience an effective emergent spacetime geometry with externally controllable signature. This effective geometry is intrinsically quantum in origin, and its signature is determined by the details of the microscopic structure. At the level of the effective field theory arising from our condensed matter system we encounter explicit anisotropic scaling in time and space. Here Lorentz symmetry is an emergent symmetry in the infrared. This anisotropic scaling of time and space cures some of the technical problems that arise when working within a canonical quantisation scheme obeying strict Lorentz invariance at all scales, and so is helpful in permitting signature change events to take place.

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