Title of article
Fractal geometry of quantum spacetime at large scales
Author/Authors
Ignatios Antoniadis، نويسنده , , Pawel O. Mazur، نويسنده , , Emil Mottola، نويسنده ,
Issue Information
روزنامه با شماره پیاپی سال 1998
Pages
9
From page
284
To page
292
Abstract
We compute the intrinsic Hausdorff dimension of spacetime at the infrared fixed point of the quantum conformal factor in 4D gravity. The fractal dimension is defined by the appropriate covariant diffusion equation in four dimensions and is determined by the coefficient of the Gauss-Bonnet term in the trace anomaly to be generally greater than 4. In addition to being testable in simplicial simulations, this scaling behavior suggests a physical mechanism for the screening of the effective cosmological `constantʹ and inverse Newtonian coupling at very large distance scales, which has implications for the dark matter content and large scale structure of the universe.
Journal title
PHYSICS LETTERS B
Serial Year
1998
Journal title
PHYSICS LETTERS B
Record number
910815
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