Does Locality Fail at Intermediate Length-Scales
| dc.creator | Sorkin, Rafael D. | |
| dc.date | 2007-03-20 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-07T07:52:47Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2026-07-07T07:52:47Z | |
| dc.description | If quantum gravity implies a fundamental spatiotemporal discreteness, and if its ``laws of motion'' are compatible with the Lorentz transformations, then physics cannot remain local. One might expect this nonlocality to be confined to the fundamental discreteness scale, but I will present evidence that it survives at much lower energies, yielding for example a nonlocal equation of motion for a scalar field propagating on an underlying causal set. | |
| dc.description | plainTeX, 24 pages, 2 figures. To appear in Daniele Oriti (ed.), {\it Towards Quantum Gravity} (Cambridge University Press, 2007). Most current version is available at http://www.physics.syr.edu/~sorkin/some.papers/ (or wherever my home-page may be) | |
| dc.identifier | https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0703099 | |
| dc.identifier | http://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0703099 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/126007 | |
| dc.subject | General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology | |
| dc.title | Does Locality Fail at Intermediate Length-Scales | |
| dc.type | text |