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Stefano Ansoldi

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Fuzzy dimensions and Planck's Uncertainty Principle for p-branes

The explicit form of the quantum propagator of a bosonic p-brane, previously obtained by the authors in the quenched-minisuperspace approximation, suggests the possibility of a novel, unified, description of p-branes with different dimensionality. The background metric that emerges in this framework is a quadratic form on a Clifford manifold. Substitution of the Lorentzian metric with the Clifford line element has two far reaching consequences. On the one hand, it changes the very structure of the spacetime fabric since the new metric is built out of a Minimum Length below which it is impossible to resolve the distance between two points; on the other hand, the introduction of the Clifford line element extends the usual relativity of motion to the case of Relative Dimensionalism of all p-branes that make up the spacetime manifold near the Planck scale.

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Quantum Fluctuations of the Gravitational Field and Propagation of Light: a Heuristic Approach

Quantum gravity is quite elusive at the experimental level; thus a lot of interest has been raised by recent searches for quantum gravity effects in the propagation of light from distant sources, like gamma ray bursters and active galactic nuclei, and also in earth-based interferometers, like those used for gravitational wave detection. Here we describe a simple heuristic picture of the quantum fluctuations of the gravitational field that we have proposed recently, and show how to use it to estimate quantum gravity effects in interferometers.

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