Quantum Gravity at Very High Energies

Details Quantum Gravity at Very High Energies Quantum Gravity at Very High Energies

2000-09-29

arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0009249v3

Nucl.Phys. B600 (2001) 378-386

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Theory

Some references added. To be published in Nucl. Phys. B

Scientific paper

10.1016/S0550-3213(01)00084-0

The problem of time and the quantization of three dimensional gravity in the strong coupling regime is studied following path integral methods. The time is identified with the volume of spacetime. We show that the effective action describes an infinite set of massless relativistic particles moving in a curved three-dimensional target space, i.e. a tensionless 3-brane on a curved background. If the cosmological constant is zero the target space is flat and there is no ` ` graviton" propagation (i.e., $G[g_{ij} (2), g_{ij} (1)] = 0$). If the cosmological constant is different from zero, 3D gravity is both classical and quantum mechanically soluble. Indeed, we find the following results: i) The general exact solutions of the Einstein equations are singular at $t=0$ showing the existence of a big-bang in this regime and ii) the propagation amplitude between two geometries $$ vanishes as $t \to 0$, suggesting that big-bang is suppressed quantum mechanically. This result is also valid for $D>3$.

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