Microcausality and Quantum Cylindrical Gravitational Waves
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
2008-11-26 v1
Abstract
We study several issues related to the different choices of time available for the classical and quantum treatment of linearly polarized cylindrical gravitational waves. We pay especial attention to the time evolution of creation and annihilation operators and the definition of Fock spaces for the different choices of time involved. We discuss also the issue of microcausality and the use of field commutators to extract information about the causal properties of quantum spacetime.
Cite
@article{arxiv.gr-qc/0304047,
title = {Microcausality and Quantum Cylindrical Gravitational Waves},
author = {J. Fernando Barbero G. and Guillermo A. Mena Marugan and Eduardo J. S. Villaseñor},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/0304047},
year = {2008}
}
Comments
12 pages, 4 figures, accepted for publication in Physical Review D