On the quantisation of gravity by embedding spacetime in a higher dimensional space

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/2/6/012MaRDI QIDQ3697765zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Matej Pavšič

Publication date 1985

Published in Classical and Quantum Gravity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1403.6316

zbMATH Keywords

4-surfacemodel Lagrangianquantum gravitySchrödinger picture

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of global differential geometry to the sciences (53C80) Geometric quantization (53D50) Quantum field theory on curved space or space-time backgrounds (81T20) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45)

Abstract: Certain difficulties of quantum gravity can be avoided if we embed the spacetime $V_4$ into a higher dimensional space $V_N$; then our spacetime is merely a 4-surface in $V_N$.What remains is conceptually not so difficult: just to quantise this 4-surface. Our formal procedure generalises our version of Stueckelberg's proper time method of worldline quantisation. We write the equations of $V_4$ in the covariant canonical form starting from a model Lagrangian which contains the classical Einstein gravity as a particular case. Then we perform quantisation in the Schr"odinger picture by using the concepts of a phase functional and wave functional. As a result we obtain the uncertainty relations which imply that an observer is `aware' either of a particular spacetime surface and has no information about other spacetime surfaces (which represent alternative histories); or conversely, he loses information about a particular $V_4$ whilst he obtains some information about other spacetimes (and histories). Equivalently, one cannot measure to an arbitrary precision both the metric on $V_4$ and matter distribution on various alternative spacetime surfaces. We show how this special case in the `coordinate' representations can be generalised to an arbitrary vector in an abstract Hilbert space.

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