Wheeler-DeWitt equation and Feynman diagrams

DOI10.1016/S0550-3213(98)00349-6zbMATH Open0951.83014arXivgr-qc/9711037OpenAlexW2072522627WikidataQ125820111 ScholiaQ125820111MaRDI QIDQ1570516FDOQ1570516

Authors: A. O. Barvinsky, Claus Kiefer 

Publication date: 11 July 2000

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

Abstract: We present a systematic expansion of all constraint equations in canonical quantum gravity up to the order of the inverse Planck mass squared. It is demonstrated that this method generates the conventional Feynman diagrammatic technique involving graviton loops and vertices. It also reveals explicitly the back reaction effects of quantized matter and graviton vacuum polarization. This provides an explicit correspondence between the frameworks of canonical and covariant quantum gravity in the semiclassical limit.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9711037

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zbMATH Keywords

constraint equationsemiclassical limitback-reactioncanonical quantum gravitycovariant quantum gravity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Feynman diagrams (81T18) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45)

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