p-adic physics below and above planck scales

✍ Scribed by M.V. Altaisky; B.G. Sidharth

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1999
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 714 KB
• Volume: 10
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0960-0779
• DOI: 10.1016/s0960-0779(98)00089-7

✦ Synopsis

We present a review and also new possible applications of p-adic numbers to pre-space-time physics. It is shown that instead of the extension LV -Q,,", which is usually implied in p-adic quantum field theory, it is possible to build a model based on the JR" -Q,,, where p=n+2 extension and get rid of loop divergences. It is also shown that the concept of mass naturally arises in p-adic models as inverse transition probability with a dimensional constant of proportionality.