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The quantization of gravity: Quantization of the Hamilton equations

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2021-04-20 v2

Abstract

We quantize the Hamilton equations instead of the Hamilton condition. The resulting equation has the simple form \Du=0-\D u=0 in a fiber bundle, where the Laplacian is the Laplacian of the Wheeler-DeWitt metric provided n4n\not=4. Using then separation of variables the solutions uu can be expressed as products of temporal and spatial eigenfunctions, where the spatial eigenfunctions are eigenfunctions of the Laplacian in the symmetric space SL(n,R[])/SO(n)SL(n,\R[])/SO(n). Since one can define a Schwartz space and tempered distributions in SL(n,R[])/SO(n)SL(n,\R[])/SO(n) as well as a Fourier transform, Fourier quantization can be applied such that the spatial eigenfunctions are transformed to Dirac measures and the spatial Laplacian to a multiplication operator.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.2104.08084,
  title  = {The quantization of gravity: Quantization of the Hamilton equations},
  author = {Claus Gerhardt},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2104.08084},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

33 pages, v2: Typos corrected and two sections added. This is the published version

R2 v1 2026-06-24T01:14:33.715Z