• 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