On the Quantization of the Gravitational Field
Abstract
We present a new point of view on the quantization of the gravitational field, namely we use exclusively the quantum framework of the second quantization. More explicitly, we take as one-particle Hilbert space, the unitary irreducible representation of the Poincar\'e group corresponding to a massless particle of helicity 2 and apply the second quantization procedure with Einstein-Bose statistics. The resulting Hilbert space is, by definition, the Hilbert space of the gravitational field. Then we prove that this Hilbert space is canonically isomorphic to a space of the type where is a supercharge defined in an extension of the Hilbert space {\cal F}^{+} (H}_{graviton}) by the inclusion of ghosts: some Fermion ghosts which are vector fields and a Bosonic ghost which is a scalar field. This has to be contrasted to the usual approaches where only the Fermion ghosts are considered. However, a rigorous proof that this is, indeed, possible seems to be lacking from the literature.
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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9905190,
title = {On the Quantization of the Gravitational Field},
author = {Dan Radu Grigore},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9905190},
year = {2007}
}
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32 pages, LATEX2E