On the quantization of the linearized gravitational field

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/17/2/304MaRDI QIDQ4947055zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Dan Radu Grigore

Publication date 6 November 2000

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9905190

zbMATH Keywords

ghostslinearized gravitational fieldmassless particle of helicity 2quantization of the gravitational fieldsecond quantization

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum field theory on curved space or space-time backgrounds (81T20) Approximation procedures, weak fields in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C25) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45)

Abstract: We present a new point of view on the quantization of the gravitational field, namely we use exclusively the quantum framework of the second quantization. More explicitly, we take as one-particle Hilbert space, $H_{graviton}$ the unitary irreducible representation of the Poincar'e group corresponding to a massless particle of helicity 2 and apply the second quantization procedure with Einstein-Bose statistics. The resulting Hilbert space ${calF}^{+}(H_{graviton})$ is, by definition, the Hilbert space of the gravitational field. Then we prove that this Hilbert space is canonically isomorphic to a space of the type $Ker(Q)/Im(Q)$ where $Q$ is a supercharge defined in an extension of the Hilbert space $$ by the inclusion of ghosts: some Fermion ghosts $u_{mu},ilde{u}_{mu}$ which are vector fields and a Bosonic ghost $Phi$ which is a scalar field. This has to be contrasted to the usual approaches where only the Fermion ghosts are considered. However, a rigorous proof that this is, indeed, possible seems to be lacking from the literature.

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