The consistency of causal quantum geometrodynamics and quantum field theory

DOI10.1023/A:1015592724845MaRDI QIDQ1604895zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors E. Sergio Santini, Nelson Pinto-Neto

Publication date 9 July 2002

Published in General Relativity and Gravitation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0009080

zbMATH Keywords

Bohm-de Brogliecanonical formalismcanonical quantum gravitygeneral relativityinterpretationMinkowski space-timeparametrized field theoryquantum field theoryquantum geometrodynamicssuper-hamiltoniansuper-momentum constraints

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Gravitational interaction in quantum theory (81V17) Special relativity (83A05) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Methods of quantum field theory in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C47) Geometrodynamics and the holographic principle (83E05)

Abstract: We consider quantum geometrodynamics and parametrized quantum field theories in the framework of the Bohm-de Broglie interpretation. In the first case, and following the lines of our previous work [1], where a hamiltonian formalism for the bohmian trajectories was constructed, we show the consistency of the theory for any quantum potential, completing the scenarios for canonical quantum cosmology presented there. In the latter case, we prove the consistency of scalar field theory in Minkowski spacetime for any quantum potential, and we show, using this alternative hamiltonian method, a concrete example where Lorentz invariance of individual events is broken.

Review text

The paper starts from the observation that parametrized field theory in Minkowski space-time and the canonical formalism of general relativity have an analogous structure insofar as both possess super-Hamiltonian and super-momentum constraints. This motivates the authors to consider them in the framework of the Bohm-de Broglie interpretation by means of analogous methods. In the first part, the constraints algebra of parametrized scalar field theory in Minkowski space is shown also to follow from a Teitelboim result concerning the relation of the space-time structure and the constraints algebra. Afterwards, the model of a scalar field in a flat space-time is studied. Following the Dirac procedure, the theory is quantized, and its Bohm-de Broglie interpretation is presented. Proceeding along the lines, the authors arrive at a Hamiltonian that is consistent for any quantum potential and show, for a concrete example, that the loss of Lorentz invariance of individual events is caused by a break of constraints algebra. In the second part, a similar procedure is applied for the quantization of canonical general relativity. Following the approach of their previous work, the authors complete the results obtained there by showing the consistency of the theory for any quantum potential.

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