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The quantum theory of the spherically symmetric gravity in 3+1 dimensions is investigated. The functional measures are explicitly evaluated and the physical state conditions are derived by using the technique developed in two dimensional…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Ken-ji Hamada , Asato Tsuchiya

Motivated by the known mathematical and physical problems arising from the current mathematical formalization of the physical spatio-temporal continuum, as a substantial technical clarification of our earlier attempt, the aim in this paper…

General Physics · Physics 2024-04-11 Gabor Etesi

Feynman's sum-over-histories formulation of quantum mechanics is reviewed as an independent statement of quantum theory in spacetime form. It is different from the usual Schr\"odinger-Heisenberg formulation that utilizes states on spacelike…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-07-24 James B. Hartle

We introduce a class of space-times modeling singular events such as evaporating black holes and topology changes, which we dub as semi-globally hyperbolic space-times. On these space-times we aim to study the existence of reasonable…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-05-23 Daan Willem Janssen

Due to quantum fluctuations, a black hole of mass $M$ represents an average over an ensemble of black hole geometries with angular momentum. This observation is apparently at odds with the fact that the curvature singularity inside a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-11-14 Eugenio Bianchi , Hal M. Haggard

Black hole evaporation is one of the most striking phenomena at the interface between gravity and quantum physics. In Hawking's semi-classical treatment, where matter is quantum mechanical and the spacetime is definite and classical,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-24 Ali Akil , Lorenzo Giannelli , Leonardo Modesto , Oscar Dahlsten , Giulio Chiribella , Caslav Brukner

Our universe contains a great number of extremely compact and massive objects which are generally accepted to be black holes. Precise observations of orbital motion near candidate black holes have the potential to determine if they have the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-04-06 Sarah J. Vigeland , Scott A. Hughes

This work aims to explore the gravitational consequences of a recently proposed black hole solution presented in the literature [Phys. Dark Univ. 50 (2025) 102061]. We initiate our analyzes by taking into account the horizon structure,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-18 A. A. Araújo Filho , N. Heidari , Iarley P. Lobo

On the path towards quantum gravity, we find friction between temporal relations in quantum mechanics (QM) (where they are fixed and field-independent), and in general relativity (where they are field-dependent and dynamic). This paper aims…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-11-28 Henrique Gomes

The spacetime singularities in classical general relativity are inevitable, which are also predicated by the celebrated singularity theorems. However, it is general belief that singularities do not exist in the nature and they are the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-10-20 Sushant G. Ghosh

This work explores the possibility of applying stochastic quantum mechanics to curved spacetimes, with an emphasis on the Schwarzschild black hole. After reviewing the fundamental concepts of this approach, the quantum stochastic equations…

General Physics · Physics 2026-04-20 Juan S. Jerez- Rodríguez , Eric S. Escobar-Aguilar , Tonatiuh Matos

"Quantum Topology" deals with the general quantum theory as the theory of the functional quantum space; space time and energy momentum forms form a connected manifold; a functional quantum space on the quantum level. The general quantum…

General Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Diaa A Ahmed

The black hole combines in some sense both the ``hydrogen atom'' and the ``black-body radiation'' problems of quantum gravity. This analogy suggests that black-hole quantization may be the key to a quantum theory of gravity. During the last…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-25 Shahar Hod

The basic features of a quantum field theory which is Poincar\'e invariant, gauge invariant, finite and unitary to all orders of perturbation theory are reviewed. Quantum gravity is finite and unitary to all orders of perturbation theory.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 J. W. Moffat

Vacuum spherically symmetric loop quantum gravity in the midi-superspace approximation using inhomogeneous horizon-penetrating slices has been studied for a decade, and it has been noted that the singularity is eliminated. It is replaced by…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-02-20 Rodolfo Gambini , Javier Olmedo , Jorge Pullin

Any quantum theory of gravity which treats the gravitational constant as a dynamical variable has to address the issue of superpositions of states corresponding to different eigenvalues. We show how the unobservability of such…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-04-06 Claus Kiefer , Erik A. Martinez

The report considers the interaction of scalar particles, photons and fermions with the gravitational and electromagnetic Schwarzschild, Reissner-Nordstr\"{o}m, Kerr and Kerr-Newman fields. The behavior of effective potentials in the…

General Physics · Physics 2020-03-26 M. V. Gorbatenko , V. P. Neznamov

The Kerr-Newman metric is the unique vacuum solution of the General Relativistic field equations, in which any singularities or spacetime pathologies are hidden behind horizons. They are believed to describe the spacetimes of massive…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-04-21 Dimitrios Psaltis

We construct a model of the Cyclic Universe from a joint theory of General relativity, Thermodynamics and Quantum information theory. Friedmann equations and the thermodynamical Gibbs-Duhem relation determine a general form of the Hubble…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-11-21 Miloslav Svec

Black holes play an important role in linking microphysics with macrophysics, with those of the Planck mass ($M_P \sim10^{-5}$g) featuring in any theory of quantum gravity. In particular, the Compton-Schwarzschild correspondence posits a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-02-27 B. J. Carr