Influence of quantum matter fluctuations on geodesic deviation

DOI10.1088/1751-8113/47/37/375202MaRDI QIDQ2922374zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Nicolò Drago, Nicola Pinamonti

Publication date 10 October 2014

Published in Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1402.4265

zbMATH Keywords

quantum fields theoryquantum fluctuationssemiclassical gravity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geodesics in global differential geometry (53C22) Variational problems in applications to the theory of geodesics (problems in one independent variable) (58E10) Semiclassical techniques, including WKB and Maslov methods applied to problems in quantum theory (81Q20) Model quantum field theories (81T10) Gravitational interaction in quantum theory (81V17) Classes of solutions; algebraically special solutions, metrics with symmetries for problems in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C20) Relativistic cosmology (83F05)

Abstract: We study the passive influence of quantum matter fluctuations on the expansion parameter of a congruence of timelike geodesics in a semiclassical regime. In particular, we show that, the perturbations of this parameter can be considered to be elements of the algebra of matter fields at all perturbative order. Hence, once a quantum state for matter is chosen, it is possible to explicitly evaluate the behavior of geometric fluctuations. After introducing the formalism necessary to treat similar problems, in the last part of the paper, we estimate the approximated probability of having a geodesic collapse in a flat spacetime due to those fluctuations.

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