Field theory as free fall

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/13/6/009zbMATH Open0856.53068OpenAlexW2949138077MaRDI QIDQ4886900FDOQ4886900

Authors J. Greensite

Publication date 24 February 1997

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9508033

zbMATH Keywords

quantum gravityclassical equations of motioncanonical formulation of general relativitygeodesic equation in superspacegravity coupled to bosonic fields

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Equations of motion in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C10) Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45)

Abstract: It is shown that the classical field equations pertaining to gravity coupled to other bosonic fields are equivalent to a single geodesic equation, describing the free fall of a point particle in superspace. Some implications for quantum gravity are discussed.

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