Wave mechanics for gravity with point-particles

DOI10.1088/1361-6382/AC12E3MaRDI QIDQ5163073zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Christian Maes, Kasper Meerts, Ward Struyve

Publication date 8 November 2021

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.09781

zbMATH Keywords

quantum gravityWheeler-DeWittBohmian geometrodynamics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Closed and approximate solutions to the Schrödinger, Dirac, Klein-Gordon and other equations of quantum mechanics (81Q05) Approximation procedures, weak fields in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C25) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45) Differential geometric methods, including holonomy, Berry and Hannay phases, Aharonov-Bohm effect, etc. in quantum theory (81Q70) Stochastic quantization (81S20)

Abstract: We consider non-relativistic point-particles coupled to Einstein gravity and their canonical quantization. From the resulting Wheeler-DeWitt wave equation we determine a quantum version of geometrodynamics, where the coupled evolution of particle positions and 3-metric is guided by the wave function. We find that this quantum dynamics implies a quantum extension of the Einstein equations. The conserved energy-momentum tensor now contains a quantum contribution. This conceptually-simple set up is promising both for deriving semiclassical and weak field approximations to the quantum Einstein equations and is thus important for the development of quantum corrections to computational general relativity.

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