Modelling the Decoherence of Spacetime (abridged)
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
2007-05-23 v1
Abstract
The question of whether unobserved short-wavelength modes of the gravitational field can induce decoherence in the long-wavelength modes (``the decoherence of spacetime'') is addressed using a scalar field toy model with some features of perturbative general relativity. This is an abridged version of the author's paper gr-qc/9612028.
Cite
@article{arxiv.gr-qc/9702003,
title = {Modelling the Decoherence of Spacetime (abridged)},
author = {John T. Whelan},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/9702003},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
3 pages, no figures. Submitted to the Proceedings of the 18th Texas Meeting on Relativistic Astrophysics, Dec 15-20, 1996