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We have previously presented a version of the Weak Equivalence Principle for a quantum particle as an exact analog of the classical case, based on the Heisenberg picture analysis of free particle motion. Here, we take that to a full…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-06-17 Otto C. W. Kong

Any canonical quantum theory can be understood to arise from the compatibility of the statistical geometry of distinguishable observations with the canonical Poisson structure of Hamiltonian dynamics. This geometric perspective offers a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Vishnu Jejjala , Djordje Minic , Chia-Hsiung Tze

We study classical limit for quantum mechanics with two times and temperature, which describes a generalized dynamics of relativistic point mass. In this theory, thermodynamic time means a parameter of evolution, whereas geometric time is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Vadim V. Asadov , Oleg V. Kechkin

We formulate geodesics on a manifold in terms of a parallel transfer of a particle state vector transformed by local Lorentz and Yang-Mills symmetry groups. This formulation leads to an introduction of a canonical one-form the eigenvalues…

Classical Physics · Physics 2019-01-31 A. N. Grigorenko

We show that the standard Heisenberg algebra of quantum mechanics admits a noncommutative differential calculus $\Omega^1$ depending on the Hamiltonian $p^2/2m + V(x)$, and a flat quantum connection $\nabla$ with torsion such that a…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2021-09-10 Edwin Beggs , Shahn Majid

We obtain generally covariant operator-valued geodesic equations on a pseudo-Riemannian manifold $M$ as part of the construction of quantum geodesics on the algebra $D(M)$ of differential operators. Geodesic motion arises here as an…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-10 Edwin Beggs , Shahn Majid

Some results of author's work in a non-geometrical approach to quantum gravity are reviewed here, among them: a quantum mechanism of classical gravity giving a possibility to compute the Newton constant; asymptotic freedom at short…

General Physics · Physics 2009-05-26 Michael A. Ivanov

Models of quantum gravity imply a fundamental revision of our description of position and momentum that manifests in modifications of the canonical commutation relations. Experimental tests of such modifications remain an outstanding…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-08-12 Shreya P. Kumar , Martin B. Plenio

We present an exact quantum observable analog of the weak equivalence principle for a `relativistic' quantum particle. The quantum geodesic equations are obtained from Heisenberg equations of motion as an exact analog of a fully covariant…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-05-15 Otto C. W. Kong

Recently it has been argued that autoparallels should be the correct description of free particle motion in spaces with torsion, and that such trajectories can be derived from variational principles if these are suitably adapted. The…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Nuno Barros e Sa

The quantum potential approach makes it possible to construct a complementary picture of quantum mechanical evolution which reminds classical equation of motion. The only difference as compared to equations of motion for the underlying…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-11-03 J. Kowalski - Glikman

This is a review of the aspirations and disappointments of the canonical quantization of geometry. I compare the two chief ways of looking at canonical gravity, geometrodynamics and connection dynamics. I capture as much of the classical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Karel Kuchar

This work presents an alternative approach to obtain the quantum field equations in curved spacetime, considering that sufficiently small particles follow stochastic trajectories around geodesic. Our proposal is based on a stochastic…

General Physics · Physics 2025-07-02 Eric S. Escobar-Aguilar , Tonatiuh Matos , J. I. Jiménez-Aquino

The existing approaches to quantization of gravity aim at giving quantum description of 3-geometry following to the ideas of the Wheeler -- DeWitt geometrodynamics. In this description the role of gauge gravitational degrees of freedom is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-05-31 T. P. Shestakova

An earlier paper [1] presented a gravity theory based on the optics of de Broglie waves rather than curved space-time. While the universe's geometry is flat, it agrees with the standard tests of general relativity. A second paper [2] showed…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Kris Krogh

We discuss in this Chapter a series of theoretical developments which motivate the introduction of a quantum evolution equation for which the eikonal approximation results in the geodesics of a four dimensional manifold. This geodesic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Lawrence P. Horwitz , Ori Oron

We develop a systematic classical framework to accommodate canonical quantization of geometric and matter perturbations on a quantum homogeneous isotropic flat spacetime. The existing approach of standard cosmological perturbations is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-06-05 Andrea Dapor , Jerzy Lewandowski , Jacek Puchta

We present a gravitational quantum dynamics theory that combines quantum field theory for particle dynamics in space-time with classical Einstein's general relativity in a non-Riemannian Finsler space. This approach is based on the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-01-05 Ivano Tavernelli

A variational framework for the quantization of gravitational fields is developed based on an extension of the stationary action principle. Within this framework, the Wheeler-DeWitt equation for the gravitational wave functional is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-08 Jianhao M. Yang

An earlier proposed theory with linear-gonihedhic action for quantum gravity is reviewed. One can consider this theory as a "square root" of classical gravity with a new fundamental constant of dimension one. We demonstrate also, that the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 G. K. Savvidy