• Medientyp: E-Artikel
  • Titel: Revisiting the minimum length in the Schwinger–Keldysh formalism
  • Beteiligte: Casadio, Roberto; Kuntz, Iberê
  • Erschienen: Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2020
  • Erschienen in: The European Physical Journal C
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • DOI: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-020-08535-1
  • ISSN: 1434-6044; 1434-6052
  • Schlagwörter: Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous) ; Engineering (miscellaneous)
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  • Beschreibung: <jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p>The existence of a minimum length in quantum gravity is investigated by computing the in-in expectation value of the proper distance in the Schwinger–Keldysh formalism. No minimum geometrical length is found for arbitrary gravitational theories to all orders in perturbation theory. Using non-perturbative techniques, we also show that neither the conformal sector of general relativity nor higher-derivative gravity features a minimum length. A minimum length scale, on the other hand, seems to always be present when one considers in-out amplitudes, from which one could extract the energy scale of scattering processes.</jats:p>
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