Positive Cosmological Constant and Quantum Theory
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Positive Cosmological Constant and Quantum Theory
We argue that quantum theory should proceed not from a spacetime background but from a Lie algebra, which is treated as a symmetry algebra. Then the fact that the cosmological constant is positive means not that the spacetime background is curved but that the de Sitter (dS) algebra as the symmetry algebra is more relevant than the Poincare or anti de Sitter ones. The physical interpretation of ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Symmetry
سال: 2010
ISSN: 2073-8994
DOI: 10.3390/sym2041945