Relativistic potential of Weyl: a gateway to quantum physics in the presence of gravitation?

DOI10.1088/1361-6382/AB6D0AMaRDI QIDQ5161349zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors R. G. Vishwakarma

Publication date 29 October 2021

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.07314

zbMATH Keywords

gravitational Aharonov-Bohm effectgravitational potentialgravitational wavesLanczos tensorpotential of Weyl tensorsingularity avoidance

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Differential geometric methods, including holonomy, Berry and Hannay phases, Aharonov-Bohm effect, etc. in quantum theory (81Q70) Gravitational waves (83C35)

Abstract: The well-noted correspondence between gravitation and electrodynamics emphasizes the importance of the Lanczos tensor -- the potential of the Weyl tensor -- which is an inherent structural element of any metric theory of gravity formulated in a 4-dimensional pseudo Riemannian spacetime. However, this ingenious discovery has gone largely unnoticed. We elucidate this important quantity by deriving its expressions in some particularly chosen spacetimes and try to find out what it represents actually. We find out that the Lanczos potential tensor does not represent the potential of the gravitational field, as is ascertained by various evidences. Rather, it is enriched with various signatures of quantum character, which provides a novel insight into the heart of a geometric embodiment of gravity.

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