The Born-Oppenheimer method, quantum gravity and matter

DOI10.1088/1361-6382/AA8FB3zbMATH Open1382.83136arXiv1709.10361OpenAlexW2756950668MaRDI QIDQ4606574FDOQ4606574

Authors: Alessandro Tronconi, Alexander Yu. Kamenshchik, Giovanni Venturi 

Publication date: 8 March 2018

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

Abstract: We illustrate and examine diverse approaches to the quantum matter-gravity system which refer to the Born-Oppenheimer (BO) method. In particular we first examine a quantum geometrodynamical approach introduced by other authors in a manner analogous to that previously employed by us, so as to include back reaction and non-adiabatic contributions. On including such effects it is seen that the unitarity violating effects previously found disappear. A quantum loop space formulation (based on a hybrid quantisation, polymer for gravitation and canonical for matter) also refers to the BO method. It does not involve the classical limit for gravitation and has a highly peaked initial scalar field state. We point out that it does not resemble in any way to our traditional BO approach. Instead it does resemble an alternative, canonically quantised, non BO approach which we have also previously discussed.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.10361

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zbMATH Keywords

quantum cosmologywave function of the universeBorn-Oppenheimer approximationWheeler-de Witt equation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45) Relativistic cosmology (83F05)

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