Building non-commutative spacetimes at the Planck length for Friedmann flat cosmologies
Abstract
We propose physically motivated spacetime uncertainty relations (STUR) for flat Friedmann-Lemaître cosmologies. We show that the physical features of these STUR crucially depend on whether a particle horizon is present or not. In particular, when this is the case we deduce the existence of a maximal value for the Hubble rate (or equivalently for the matter density), thus providing an indication that quantum effects may rule out a pointlike big bang singularity. Finally, we construct a concrete realization of the corresponding quantum Friedmann spacetime in terms of operators on a Hilbert space.
- Publication:
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Classical and Quantum Gravity
- Pub Date:
- September 2014
- DOI:
- 10.1088/0264-9381/31/18/185001
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1308.2767
- Bibcode:
- 2014CQGra..31r5001T
- Keywords:
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- non-commutative geometry;
- Friedmann cosmologies;
- quantum spacetime;
- 02.40.Gh;
- 04.60.-m;
- 03.65.-w;
- 04.20.-q;
- General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology;
- Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics;
- High Energy Physics - Theory
- E-Print:
- Final version published in Class. Quantum Grav