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كما كتبه المؤلفون، بالإنجليزية arXiv:2606.02729v2

We compute the commutator of a scalar field minimally coupled to gravity at leading order in $$G_N$$. The commutator is operator-valued, with terms involving derivatives of Dirac deltas supported on the Minkowski light cone. When evaluated on classical/coherent graviton states, these terms ``bend" the support of the commutator in precisely the way required to recover standard causality on a classical curved spacetime. However, these terms are also associated with a variance and are thus a source of uncertainty in the causal relations between events. We quantify this effect for a thermal state of gravitons at temperature $$T$$ by computing the probability that $$[\phi(t,\vec x),\phi(0)] eq0$$. We find that the probability distribution for $$\vec x^{\,2}$$ is Gaussian, centered on the classical light cone, with a time-growing variance $$$$ {\rm Var}(\vec x^{\, 2})=\frac{16G_NTt^3}{3}. $$$$ This result is obtained after subtracting a universal vacuum contribution, which is logarithmically UV divergent and subleading at late times.