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Through the discussion of the fundamental properties of Lagrangian density for a gravitational system, the theoretical foundations of the modified Einstein field equations and the Lorentz and Levi-Civita conservation laws are systematically…

General Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Fang-Pei Chen

In the present paper we propose a new approach to quantum fields in terms of category algebras and states on categories. We define quantum fields and their states as category algebras and states on causal categories with partial involution…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2021-12-14 Hayato Saigo

Identifying an appropriate set of ``observables'' is a nontrivial task for most approaches to quantum gravity. We describe how it may be accomplished in the context of a recently proposed family of stochastic (but classical) dynamical laws…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Graham Brightwell , H. Fay Dowker , Joe Henson , Raquel S. Garcia , Rafael D. Sorkin

In a previous work and in terms of an exact quantum-mechanical framework, $\hbar$-independent causal and retarded expectation values of the second-quantized electro-magnetic fields in the Coulomb gauge were derived in the presence of a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-12-26 Bo-Sture K. Skagerstam , Karl-Erik Eriksson , Per K. Rekdal

In this thesis, I present three projects I carried out during m PhD. In the first project, I introduce Conformal Transformations and the Galaxy Number County. I explicitly show that the Galaxy Number Counts is invariant under Conformal…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-07-08 Jérémie Francfort

In general relativity (GR), spacetime geometry is no longer just a background arena but a physical and dynamical entity with its own degrees of freedom. We present an overview of approaches to quantum gravity in which this central feature…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-08-20 Abhay Ashtekar , Martin Reuter , Carlo Rovelli

Using electromagnetic interaction as an example, response transformations [L.P. and S.S., Ann.Phys. 323, 1963, 1989 (2008), 324, 600 (2009)] are applied to the standard perturbative approach of quantum field theory. This approach is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-07-28 L. I. Plimak , S. T. Stenholm

I review some recent work where ideas and methods from Quantum Field Theory have proved useful in probability and vice versa. The topics discussed include the use of Renormalization Group theory in Stochastic Partial Differential Equations…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-11-17 Antti Kupiainen

We analyze the weak-field limit of General Relativity with matter and its possible quantisations. This analysis aims towards a predictive quantum theory to provide a first-principles description of gravitational effects in macroscopic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-08-11 Charis Anastopoulos , Mihalis Lagouvardos , Konstantina Savvidou

We provide a framework and explicit construction for the regularized measurement of a large class of spacetime-localized observables in bosonic quantum field theory. The measurements fully satisfy relativistic causality and causal…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-06 Robert Oeckl

Quantum gravity (or quantum spacetime) is to unify general relativity and quantum mechanics into a single theoretical framework and presented as the most important open puzzle in fundamental physics. The development of a microscopic theory…

General Physics · Physics 2025-10-24 Su-Peng Kou

There are numerous indications that a discrete substratum underlies continuum spacetime. Any fundamentally discrete approach to quantum gravity must provide some prescription for how continuum properties emerge from the underlying…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-08-25 David Rideout , Petros Wallden

Observed physical phenomena can be described well by quantum mechanics or general relativity. People may try to find an unified fundamental theory which mainly aims to merge gravity with quantum theory. However, difficulty in merging those…

General Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Chang-Yu Zhu , Heng Fan

The generalization of the concept of homogeneous gravitational field from Classical Mechanics was considered in the framework of Einstein's General Relativity by Bogorodskii. In this paper, I look for such a generalization in the framework…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Delia Ionescu

The goal of this report is to provide an up to date account of results on the quantum nature of the big bang, obtained in loop quantum cosmology. They suggest a radical modification of the paradigm provided by general relativity for the…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Abhay Ashtekar

This monograph provides a largely self--contained and broadly accessible exposition of two cosmological applications of algebraic quantum field theory (QFT) in curved spacetime: a fundamental analysis of the cosmological evolution according…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-08 Thomas-Paul Hack

The causal set theory (CST) approach to quantum gravity postulates that at the most fundamental level, spacetime is discrete, with the spacetime continuum replaced by locally finite posets or "causal sets". The partial order on a causal set…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-10-09 Sumati Surya

This article provides a cartoon of the quantization of General Relativity using the ideas of effective field theory. These ideas underpin the use of General Relativity as a theory from which precise predictions are possible, since they show…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 C. P. Burgess

In a class of generalized gravity theories with general couplings between the scalar field and the scalar curvature in the Lagrangian, we can describe the quantum generation and the classical evolution of both the scalar and tensor…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-25 J. Hwang

The Causal Set approach to quantum gravity asserts that spacetime, at its smallest length scale, has a discrete structure. This discrete structure takes the form of a locally finite order relation, where the order, corresponding with the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 David Rideout