Modular spacetime

Freidel, Laurent; Leigh, Robert G.; Minic, Djordje

doi:10.1142/S0218271815440289

Title: Modular spacetime

Abstract

String theory is canonically accompanied with a space-time interpretation which determines S-matrix-like observables, and connects to the standard physics at low energies in the guise of local effective fi eld theory. We have recently introduced metastring theory as a reformulation of string theory which does not rely on an a priori spacetime interpretation or a presumption of locality found in local effective field theory. In this essay, we focus on the concept of modular spacetime as the natural quantum gravitational notion of spacetime that emerges from metastring theory.

Authors:

Freidel, Laurent ^[1]; Leigh, Robert G. ^[2]; Minic, Djordje ^[3]

Perimeter Inst. for Theoretical Physics, Waterloo ON (Canada)
Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL (United States)
Virginia Polytechnic Inst. and State Univ. (Virginia Tech), Blacksburg, VA (United States)

Publication Date:: Thu Nov 05 00:00:00 EST 2015

Research Org.:: Virginia Polytechnic Inst. and State Univ. (Virginia Tech), Blacksburg, VA (United States)

Sponsoring Org.:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP); Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)

OSTI Identifier:: 1594541

Grant/Contract Number:: SC0009973; FG02-13ER42001; FG02-13ER41917

Resource Type:: Accepted Manuscript

Journal Name:: International Journal of Modern Physics D

Additional Journal Information:: Journal Volume: 24; Journal Issue: 12; Related Information: This essay received an Honorable Mention in the 2015 Essay Competition of the Gravity Research Foundation.; Journal ID: ISSN 0218-2718

Publisher:: World Scientific

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

Subject:: 72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS; Quantum gravity; metastring theory; modular spacetime

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