Extracting the Maxwell charge from the Wheeler-deWitt equation

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSLETB.2008.06.070MaRDI QIDQ901751zbMATHOpenAlexFDO

Authors Remo Garattini

Publication date 12 January 2016

Published in Physics Letters B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0807.0082

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45) Electromagnetic fields in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C50)

Abstract: We consider the Wheeler-De Witt equation as a device for finding eigenvalues of a Sturm-Liouville problem. In particular, we will focus our attention on the electric (magnetic) Maxwell charge. In this context, we interpret the Maxwell charge as an eigenvalue of the Wheeler-De Witt equation generated by the gravitational field fluctuations. A variational approach with Gaussian trial wave functionals is used as a method to study the existence of such an eigenvalue. We restrict the analysis to the graviton sector of the perturbation. We approximate the equation to one loop in a Schwarzschild background and a zeta function regularization is involved to handle with divergences. The regularization is closely related to the subtraction procedure appearing in the computation of Casimir energy in a curved background. A renormalization procedure is introduced to remove the infinities together with a renormalization group equation.

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