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Babar Qureshi

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arXiv2024

From global time to local physics

Global time is a gauge or relational choice of time variable in canonical gravity. Local time is the time used in a flat patch of spacetime. We compare the dynamics of a scalar field with respect to choices of global time and Minkowski patch time in an expanding cosmology. Our main results are that evolutions starting from the same initial conditions are similar on the time scales of terrestrial experiments, and that global time leads to a mechanism for evolving coupling constants.

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arXiv2018

Gravity, time and varying constants

There are theories which implement the idea that the constants of nature may be "time dependent." These introduce new fields representing "evolving constants," in addition to physical fields. We argue that dynamical matter coupling constants can arise naturally in non-perturbative matter-gravity theories, after a choice of global time is made. We illustrate the idea in scalar field cosmology with spatial volume as a global clock, and compute the time dependence of the scalar mass and self-interaction coupling constants.

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arXiv2017

ADM Energy and Infra-gravitons

In QED and QCD [1, 2], infrared photons and gluons alter the Hilbert space of the theory so that the in and out states live in a Hilbert space carrying a representation of basic commutation relations which is non-equivalent to the standard Fock representation, leading to spontaneous breakdown of Lorentz symmetry and physical effects. These results are generalized here to quantum gravity regarded as an SL(2; C) gauge theory and the shift of the ADM energy density and mass from infrared spin connection (the spin cloud) is discussed.

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arXiv2016

Ground state of the universe and the cosmological constant. A nonperturbative analysis

The physical Hamiltonian of a gravity-matter system depends on the choice of time, with the vacuum naturally identified as its ground state. We study the expanding universe with scalar field in the volume time gauge. We show that the vacuum energy density computed from the resulting Hamiltonian is a non-linear function of the cosmological constant and time. This result provides a new perspective on the relation between time, the cosmological constant, and vacuum energy.

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