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The weight of collapse: dynamical reduction models in general relativistic contexts

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2017-01-12 v1 History and Philosophy of Physics Quantum Physics

Abstract

Inspired by possible connections between gravity and foundational question in quantum theory, we consider an approach for the adaptation of objective collapse models to a general relativistic context. We apply these ideas to a list of open problems in cosmology and quantum gravity, such as the emergence of seeds of cosmic structure, the black hole information issue, the problem of time in quantum gravity and, in a more speculative manner, to the nature of dark energy and the origin of the very special initial state of the universe. We conclude that objective collapse models offer a rather promising path to deal with all of these issues.

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@article{arxiv.1701.02963,
  title  = {The weight of collapse: dynamical reduction models in general relativistic contexts},
  author = {Elias Okon and Daniel Sudarsky},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1701.02963},
  year   = {2017}
}

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25 pages, 1 figure