String Theory and the Space-Time Uncertainty Principle

By T. Yoneya. 2000

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The notion of a space-time uncertainty principle in string theory is clarified and further developed. The motivation and the derivation of the principle are first reviewed in a reasonably self-contained way. It is then shown that the nonperturbative (Borel summed) high-energy and high-momentum transfer behavior of string scattering is consistent with the space-time uncertainty principle. It is also shown that, as a consequence of this principle, string theories in 10 dimensions generically exhibit a characteristic length scale which is equal to the well-known 11 dimensional Planck length g 1/3 s

Subfields: Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics

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In Nuclear and High Energy Physics

1. N. Seiberg
2. N. Toumbas
3. L. Susskind
4. Sabine Hossenfelder
5. J. Maldacena
6. E. Witten
7. D. Stanford
8. Y. Nakayama

In Statistical and Nonlinear Physics

1. N. Seiberg
2. N. Toumbas
3. L. Susskind
4. Sabine Hossenfelder
5. E. Witten
6. R. Myers
7. D. Stanford
8. Phil Saad

Citations in the corpus

• Minimal Length Scale Scenarios for Quantum Gravity (2012, background): “The extremal lengths λΩ(Γ) and λΩ(Γ ) then fulfill property [317, 318] λΩ(Γ )λΩ(Γ) = 1 .”
• Strings in background electric field, space / time noncommutativity and a new noncritical string theory (2000, background): “Such an uncertainty relation was advocated as a generic property of string theory – “the stringy uncertainty principle” even when no electric field is present (see [4] for a review and an extensive list of earlier references).”