scholarly journals Clock-dependent spacetime

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sung-Sik Lee
Keyword(s):  
Hilbert Space ◽  
General Relativity ◽  
Quantum Gravity ◽  
Hilbert Spaces ◽  
Coordinate Systems ◽  
Physical Laws

Abstract Einstein’s theory of general relativity is based on the premise that the physical laws take the same form in all coordinate systems. However, it still presumes a preferred decomposition of the total kinematic Hilbert space into local kinematic Hilbert spaces. In this paper, we consider a theory of quantum gravity that does not come with a preferred partitioning of the kinematic Hilbert space. It is pointed out that, in such a theory, dimension, signature, topology and geometry of spacetime depend on how a collection of local clocks is chosen within the kinematic Hilbert space.

scholarly journals On Quantum Gravity As A Recorded Quantum Arrow Of Time

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stuart Kauffman
Keyword(s):  
Hilbert Space ◽  
General Relativity ◽  
Quantum Gravity ◽  
Time History ◽  
Von Neumann Entropy ◽  
Arrow Of Time ◽  
Early 21St Century ◽  
Metric Distances ◽  
Coherent Quantum ◽  
Non Locality

I take non-locality to be the Michaelson Morley experiment of the early 21st Century, assume its universal validity, and try to derive its consequences. Spacetime, with its locality, cannot be fundamental, but must somehow be emergent from entangled coherent quantum variables and their behaviors. There are, then, two immediate consequences: i. If we start with non-locality, we need not explain non-locality. We must instead explain an emergence of locality and spacetime. ii. There can be no emergence of spacetime without matter. These propositions flatly contradict General Relativity, which is foundationally local, can be formulated without matter, and in which there is no "emergence" of spacetime.It these be true, then quantum gravity cannot be a minor alteration of General Relativity, but must demand its deep reformulation. This will almost inevitably lead to: Matter not only deforms spacetime, but "creates" spacetime. We will see independent grounds for the assertion that matter both deforms and creates spacetime that may invite a new union of quantum gravity and General Relativity.This quantum creation of spacetime consists in: i. Fully non-local entangled coherent quantum variables. ii. The onset of locality via decoherence. iii. A metric in Hilbert Space among entangled quantum variables by the sub-additive von Neumann Entropy between pairs of variables. iv. Mapping from metric distances in Hilbert Space to metric distances in classical spacetime by episodic actualization events. v. Discrete spacetime is the relations among these discrete actualization events. vi. "Now" is the shared moment of actualization of one among the entangled variables when the amplitudes of the remaining entangled variables change instantaneously. vii. The discrete, successive, episodic, irreversible actualization events constitute a quantum arrow of time. viii. The arrow of time history of these events is recorded in the very structure of the spacetime constructed. ix. Actual Time is a succession of two or more actual events.This quantum creation of spacetime modifies general relativity and may account for Dark Energy, Dark Matter, and the possible elimination of the singularities of General Relativity. Possible experimental tests in both the attractive and repulsive Casimir effect setting are described. A quantum actualization enhancement of repulsive Casimir would be anti-gravitational, and of possible practical use. Relations to Causal Set Theory, faithful Lorentzian manifolds, and past and future light cones joined at ``Actual Now'' are discussed.The ideas and concepts discussed here are not yet a theory, but at most a framework that may be useful.

The Equivalence Principle

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
David M. Wittman
Keyword(s):  
General Relativity ◽  
Special Relativity ◽  
Equivalence Principle ◽  
Time Dilation ◽  
Gravitational Redshift ◽  
Coordinate Systems ◽  
Spacetime Metric

The equivalence principle is an important thinking tool to bootstrap our thinking from the inertial coordinate systems of special relativity to the more complex coordinate systems that must be used in the presence of gravity (general relativity). The equivalence principle posits that at a given event gravity accelerates everything equally, so gravity is equivalent to an accelerating coordinate system.This conjecture is well supported by precise experiments, so we explore the consequences in depth: gravity curves the trajectory of light as it does other projectiles; the effects of gravity disappear in a freely falling laboratory; and gravitymakes time runmore slowly in the basement than in the attic—a gravitational form of time dilation. We show how this is observable via gravitational redshift. Subsequent chapters will build on this to show how the spacetime metric varies with location.

scholarly journals Translation and modulation invariant Hilbert spaces

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joachim Toft ◽  
Anupam Gumber ◽  
Ramesh Manna ◽  
P. K. Ratnakumar
Keyword(s):  
Hilbert Space ◽  
Hilbert Spaces ◽  
Zero Element ◽  
Multiplicative Constant ◽  
Space Of Distributions ◽  
Feichtinger Algebra

AbstractLet $$\mathcal H$$ H be a Hilbert space of distributions on $$\mathbf{R}^{d}$$ R d which contains at least one non-zero element of the Feichtinger algebra $$S_0$$ S 0 and is continuously embedded in $$\mathscr {D}'$$ D ′ . If $$\mathcal H$$ H is translation and modulation invariant, also in the sense of its norm, then we prove that $$\mathcal H= L^2$$ H = L 2 , with the same norm apart from a multiplicative constant.

scholarly journals A characterisation of Hilbert spaces via orthogonality and proximinality

2005 ◽  
Vol 71 (1) ◽  
pp. 107-111
Author(s):  
Fathi B. Saidi
Keyword(s):  
Banach Space ◽  
Hilbert Space ◽  
Banach Spaces ◽  
Hilbert Spaces ◽  
Real Banach Space ◽  
Nonzero Element ◽  
Dimensional Subspace ◽  
Two Dimensional ◽  
Orthogonal Direction ◽  
Open Problems

In this paper we adopt the notion of orthogonality in Banach spaces introduced by the author in [6]. There, the author showed that in any two-dimensional subspace F of E, every nonzero element admits at most one orthogonal direction. The problem of existence of such orthogonal direction was not addressed before. Our main purpose in this paper is the investigation of this problem in the case where E is a real Banach space. As a result we obtain a characterisation of Hilbert spaces stating that, if in every two-dimensional subspace F of E every nonzero element admits an orthogonal direction, then E is isometric to a Hilbert space. We conclude by presenting some open problems.

scholarly journals QUANTUM GRAVITY BY THE COMPLEX CANONICAL FORMULATION

1992 ◽  
Vol 01 (03n04) ◽  
pp. 439-523 ◽  
Author(s):  
HIDEO KODAMA
Keyword(s):  
General Relativity ◽  
Quantum Gravity ◽  
Conventional Treatment ◽  
Quantum States ◽  
Hamiltonian Constraint ◽  
Canonical Formulation ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
Canonical Approach ◽  
New Formulation ◽  
Basic Features

The basic features of the complex canonical formulation of general relativity and the recent developments in the quantum gravity program based on it are reviewed. The exposition is intended to be complementary to the review articles already available and some original arguments are included. In particular the conventional treatment of the Hamiltonian constraint and quantum states in the canonical approach to quantum gravity is criticized and a new formulation is proposed.

scholarly journals Plebański–Demiański solution of general relativity and its expressions quadratic and cubic in curvature: Analogies to electromagnetism

2015 ◽  
Vol 24 (10) ◽  
pp. 1550079 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jens Boos
Keyword(s):  
General Relativity ◽  
Electromagnetic Field ◽  
General Type ◽  
Coordinate Systems ◽  
Irreducible Decomposition ◽  
Asymptotically Flat ◽  
Type D ◽  
Curvature Invariants ◽  
Free Parameters ◽  
First Time

Analogies between gravitation and electromagnetism have been known since the 1950s. Here, we examine a fairly general type D solution — the exact seven parameter solution of Plebański–Demiański (PD) — to demonstrate these analogies for a physically meaningful spacetime. The two quadratic curvature invariants B2 - E2 and E⋅B are evaluated analytically. In the asymptotically flat case, the leading terms of E and B can be interpreted as gravitoelectric mass and gravitoelectric current of the PD solution, respectively, if there are no gravitomagnetic monopoles present. Furthermore, the square of the Bel–Robinson tensor reads (B2 + E2)2 for the PD solution, reminiscent of the square of the energy density in electrodynamics. By analogy to the energy–momentum 3-form of the electromagnetic field, we provide an alternative way to derive the recently introduced Bel–Robinson 3-form, from which the Bel–Robinson tensor can be calculated. We also determine the Kummer tensor, a tensor cubic in curvature, for a general type D solution for the first time, and calculate the pieces of its irreducible decomposition. The calculations are carried out in two coordinate systems: In the original polynomial PD coordinates and in a modified Boyer–Lindquist-like version introduced by Griffiths and Podolský (GP) allowing for a more straightforward physical interpretation of the free parameters.

scholarly journals Some Hilbert spaces related with the Dirichlet space

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicola Arcozzi ◽  
Pavel Mozolyako ◽  
Karl-Mikael Perfekt ◽  
Stefan Richter ◽  
Giulia Sarfatti
Keyword(s):  
Hilbert Space ◽  
Hilbert Spaces ◽  
Reproducing Kernel ◽  
Reproducing Kernel Hilbert Space ◽  
Dirichlet Space

AbstractWe study the reproducing kernel Hilbert space with kernel k

scholarly journals Isometric Group Actions on Hilbert Spaces: Structure of Orbits

2008 ◽  
Vol 60 (5) ◽  
pp. 1001-1009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yves de Cornulier ◽  
Romain Tessera ◽  
Alain Valette
Keyword(s):  
Hilbert Space ◽  
Nilpotent Group ◽  
Hilbert Spaces ◽  
Metabelian Group ◽  
Isometric Action ◽  
Finitely Generated ◽  
Infinite Dimensional ◽  
Infinite Dimensional Hilbert Space ◽  
Isometric Group Actions ◽  
Dense Orbits

AbstractOur main result is that a finitely generated nilpotent group has no isometric action on an infinite-dimensional Hilbert space with dense orbits. In contrast, we construct such an action with a finitely generated metabelian group.

scholarly journals On invex programming problem in Hilbert spaces

2015 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 379-385
Author(s):  
Sandip Chatterjee ◽  
Rathindranath Mukherjee
Keyword(s):  
Hilbert Space ◽  
Programming Problem ◽  
Hilbert Spaces

In this paper we introduce the invex programming problem in Hilbert space. The requisite theory has been established to characterize the solution of such class of problems.

scholarly journals Ontology in Quantum Mechanics

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gerard ’t Hooft
Keyword(s):  
Hilbert Space ◽  
General Relativity ◽  
Black Hole ◽  
Quantum Mechanics ◽  
Evolution Equations ◽  
Black Hole Physics ◽  
Special Kind ◽  
Quantum Evolution ◽  
The Standard Model ◽  
Low Energies

It is suspected that the quantum evolution equations describing the micro-world as we know it are of a special kind that allows transformations to a special set of basis states in Hilbert space, such that, in this basis, the evolution is given by elements of the permutation group. This would restore an ontological interpretation. It is shown how, at low energies per particle degree of freedom, almost any quantum system allows for such a transformation. This contradicts Bell’s theorem, and we emphasise why some of the assumptions made by Bell to prove his theorem cannot hold for the models studied here. We speculate how an approach of this kind may become helpful in isolating the most likely version of the Standard Model, combined with General Relativity. A link is suggested with black hole physics.

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