English

Generally covariant dynamical reduction models and the Hadamard condition

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2018-02-06 v2 Mathematical Physics math.MP Quantum Physics

Abstract

We provide general guidelines for generalizing dynamical reduction models to curved spacetimes and propose a class of generally covariant relativistic versions of the GRW model. We anticipate that the collapse operators of our class of models may play a r\^ole in a yet-to-be-formulated theory of semiclassical gravity with collapses. We show explicitly that the collapse operators map a dense domain of states that are initially Hadamard to final Hadamard states -- a property that we expect will be needed for the construction of such a semiclassical theory. Finally, we provide a simple example in which we explicitly compute the violations in energy-momentum due to the state reduction process and conclude that this violation is of the order of a parameter of the model -- supposed to be small.

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@article{arxiv.1708.09371,
  title  = {Generally covariant dynamical reduction models and the Hadamard condition},
  author = {Benito A. Juárez-Aubry and Bernard S. Kay and Daniel Sudarsky},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1708.09371},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

V2: 20 pages. Some typos corrected and new remarks in the Introduction. For an extended version of this paper see V1

R2 v1 2026-06-22T21:28:11.075Z