{
  "id": "hep-th/0009063",
  "version": "v2",
  "published": "2000-09-08T18:00:53.000Z",
  "updated": "2002-05-13T10:44:15.000Z",
  "title": "The Shortest Scale of Quantum Field Theory",
  "authors": [
    "Ram Brustein",
    "David Eichler",
    "Stefano Foffa",
    "David H. Oaknin"
  ],
  "comment": "8 pages. One author added, additional clarifcations and discussions. Figure removed. Version published in PRD",
  "journal": "Phys.Rev. D65 (2002) 105013",
  "doi": "10.1103/PhysRevD.65.105013",
  "categories": [
    "hep-th",
    "gr-qc"
  ],
  "abstract": "It is suggested that the Minkowski vacuum of quantum field theories of a large number of fields N would be gravitationally unstable due to strong vacuum energy fluctuations unless an N dependent sub-Planckian ultraviolet momentum cutoff is introduced. We estimate this implied cutoff using an effective quantum theory of massless fields that couple to semi-classical gravity and find it (assuming that the cosmological constant vanishes) to be bounded by $M_Planck/N^1/4$. Our bound can be made consistent with entropy bounds and holography, but does not seem to be equivalent to either, and it relaxes but does not eliminate the implied bound on N inherent in entropy bounds.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v2",
      "updated": "2002-05-13T10:44:15.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "subjects": [
      "04.70.Dy",
      "11.10.Gh"
    ],
    "keywords": [
      "quantum field theory",
      "shortest scale",
      "vacuum energy fluctuations unless",
      "dependent sub-planckian ultraviolet momentum cutoff",
      "entropy bounds"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "journal article"
    ],
    "publication": {
      "publisher": "APS",
      "journal": "Phys. Rev. D"
    },
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 8,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable",
      "inspire": 533182
    }
  }
}