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We develop a new formalism for the treatment of gravitational backreaction in the cosmological setting. The approach is inspired by projective techniques in non-equilibrium statistical mechanics. We employ group-averaging with respect to…

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In this work we consider gravitational theories in which the effect of coupling characteristic classes, appropriately introduced as operators in the Einstein-Hilbert action, has been taken into account. As it is well known, this approach…

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We introduce a class of states characterized by proposed conditions of homogeneity and isotropy in loop quantum gravity and construct concrete examples given by Bell-network states on a special class of homogeneous graphs. Such states…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-03-29 Bekir Baytas , Nelson Yokomizo

A central aspect of the cosmological constant problem is to understand why vacuum energy does not gravitate. In order to account for this observation, while allowing for nontrivial dynamics of the quantum vacuum, we motivate a novel…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-02-05 Stephon Alexander , Raúl Carballo-Rubio

We develop a novel framework for describing quantum fluctuations in field theory, with a focus on cosmological applications. Our method uniquely circumvents the use of operator/Hilbert-space formalism, instead relying on a systematic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-06-25 Ding Ding , Zhao Yu , Yidun Wan

Well defined quantum field theory (QFT) for the electroweak force including quantum electrodynamics (QED) and the weak force is obtained by considering natural unitary representations of a group $K\subset U(2,2)$, where $K$ is locally…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2021-06-16 John Mashford

This thesis is broadly split into two parts. In the first part, simple state sum models for minimally coupled fermion and scalar fields are constructed on a $1$-manifold. The models are independent of the triangulation and give the same…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-08-11 Steven Kerr

In this paper is considered a generalized quantization principle for the gravitational field in canonical quantum gravity, especially with respect to quantum geometrodynamics. This assumption can be interpreted as a transfer from the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-08-07 Martin Kober

In quantum cosmology, one applies quantum physics to the whole universe. While no unique version and no completely well-defined theory is available yet, the framework gives rise to interesting conceptual, mathematical and physical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-01-21 Martin Bojowald

Dynamical quantum field theories (QFTs), such as those in which spacetimes are equipped with a metric and/or a field in the form of a smooth map to a target manifold, can be formulated axiomatically using the language of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-05-16 Ben Gripaios , Oscar Randal-Williams , Joseph Tooby-Smith

We study cosmological dynamics of the cuscuta-galileon gravity with a potential term by using the dynamical system approach. This model is galileon generalization of the cuscuton gravity where we add a potential term to the theory in order…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-03-23 Sirachak Panpanich , Kei-ichi Maeda

Based on an identified quantum relativity symmetry the contraction of which gives the Newtonian approximation of Galilean relativity, a quantum model of the physical space can be formulated with the Newtonian space seen in a way as the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-03-27 Otto C. W. Kong

A novel routine to investigate the scalar fields in a cosmological context is discussed in the framework of the Hamiltonian formalism. Starting from the Einstein-Hilbert action coupled to a Lagrangian density that contains two components -…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-09-16 Alex E. Bernardini , O. Bertolami

One of the main technical obstacles in constructing a consistent theory of quantum gravity is that the metric itself defines the causal structure required for quantization. This motivates implementing quantum aspects of gravity through an…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-16 Johas Morales , Yuri Bonder

We apply the formalism of thermofield dynamics to group field theory quantum gravity and construct thermal representations associated with generalised equilibrium Gibbs states using Bogoliubov transformations. The newly constructed class of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-03-03 Mehdi Assanioussi , Isha Kotecha

We present a unified dynamical systems framework for spatially flat FLRW cosmology in $f(Q)$ gravity, covering all three connection branches via a single set of Hubble-normalised variables without fixing $f(Q)$ \textit{a priori}. This…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-17 Jibitesh Dutta , Wompherdeiki Khyllep , Saikat Chakraborty , Daniele Gregoris , Khamphee Karwan

Relativistic quantum field theory (QFT) is commonly formulated in terms of operators, asymptotic states, and covariant amplitudes, a perspective that tends to obscure the real-time origin of field dynamics and correlations. Here we…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-02-05 Yong Zhang

We present a rigorous quantization scheme that yields a quantum field theory in general boundary form starting from a linear field theory. Following a geometric quantization approach in the K\"ahler case, state spaces arise as spaces of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-08-10 Robert Oeckl

The canonically quantized 3+1 General Relativity with the global one dimensionality conjecture defines the model, which dimensionally reduced and secondary quantized yields the one-dimensional quantum field theory wherein the generic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-06-11 Lukasz Andrzej Glinka

The quantization of Einstein-Maxwell theory with a cosmological constant is considered. We obtain all logarithmically divergent terms in the one-loop effective action that involve only the background electromagnetic field. This includes…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-06 David J. Toms