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The Quantization of Geodesic Deviation

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2011-04-04 v1 High Energy Physics - Theory Quantum Physics

Abstract

There exists a two parameter action, the variation of which produces both the geodesic equation and the geodesic deviation equation. In this paper it is shown that this action can be quantized by the canonical method, resulting in equations which generalize the Klein-Gordon equation. The resulting equations might have applications, and also show that entirely unexpected systems can be quantized. The possible applications of quantized geodesic deviation are to: i)the spreading wave packet in quantum theory, ii)and also to the one particle to many particle problem in second quantized quantum field theory.

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@article{arxiv.gr-qc/9903097,
  title  = {The Quantization of Geodesic Deviation},
  author = {Mark D. Roberts},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/9903097},
  year   = {2011}
}

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9 pages, no diagrams, no tables, LaTex2e