Potential energy in quantum gravity

DOI10.1016/0550-3213(94)00489-2MaRDI QIDQ1571431zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors G. Modanese

Publication date 10 July 2000

Published in Nuclear Physics B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9408103

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45)

Abstract: We give a general expression for the static potential energy of the gravitational interaction of two massive particles, in terms of an invariant vacuum expectation value of the quantized gravitational field. This formula holds for functional integral formulations of euclidean quantum gravity, regularized to avoid conformal instability. It could be regarded as the analogue of the Wilson loop of gauge theories and allows in principle, through numerical lattice simulations or other approximation techniques, non perturbative evaluations of the potential or of the effective coupling constant.

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• Quantum Theory of Gravity. I. The Canonical Theory

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