A minimal time and time-temperature uncertainty principle

dc.contributor.author	de Sabbata, V
dc.contributor.author	Sivaram, C
dc.date.accessioned	2008-10-24T14:37:24Z
dc.date.available	2008-10-24T14:37:24Z
dc.date.issued	1992-04
dc.identifier.citation	Foundations of Physics Letters, Vol. 5, No. 2, pp. 183 - 189	en
dc.identifier.issn	0894-9875
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/2248/3970
dc.description	Restricted Access
dc.description.abstract	We show that introducing torsion in general relativity, that is, physically, considering the effect of the spin and linking the torsion to defects in spacetime topology, we can have a minimal unit of time. Also an uncertainty relation between time and temperature is suggested. The interesting thing is that with this minimal time we can eliminate the divergence of the self-energy integral without introducing any ad hoc cut-off, and it is also possible to understand black-hole evaporation as a process of quantum diffusion which leads directly to the Hawking formula. A minimal operationally definable temperature in a cosmological context is discussed.	en
dc.language.iso	en	en
dc.publisher	Springer	en
dc.relation.uri	http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF00682814	en
dc.subject	Torsion	en
dc.subject	Space Defects	en
dc.subject	Time	en
dc.title	A minimal time and time-temperature uncertainty principle	en
dc.type	Article	en