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A definition of gravitational energy is proposed for any theory described by a diffeomorphism-invariant Lagrangian. The mathematical structure is a Noether- current construction of Wald involving the boundary term in the action, but here it…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Sean A. Hayward

We look at the various aspects of treating general relativity as a quantum theory. It is briefly studied how to consistently quantize general relativity as an effective field theory. A key achievement here is the long-range low-energy…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Niels Emil Jannik Bjerrum-Bohr

The semiclassical interaction of the gravitational with a quantum scalar field is considered, in view of the renormalizability of the associated energy-momentum tensor in a n-dimensional curved spacetime resulting from a quadratic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-06-21 Kostas Kleidis

With applying of new proposed electromagnetic gravity Lagrangian together with Einstein-Hilbert equation not zero space curvature was derived. The curvature gives "a priory" postulate of equivalence of mass and electromagnetic field gravity…

General Physics · Physics 2026-02-26 Maknickas Algirdas Antano

We use the worldline formalism for calculating the one-loop effective action for the Einstein-Maxwell background induced by charged scalars or spinors, in the limit of low energy and weak gravitational field but treating the electromagnetic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-03-19 Fiorenzo Bastianelli , Jose Manuel Davila , Christian Schubert

We study a noncommutative theory of gravity in the framework of torsional spacetime. This theory is based on a Lagrangian obtained by applying the technique of dimensional reduction of noncommutative gauge theory and that the yielded…

General Physics · Physics 2014-12-30 Aref Yazdani

The energy of gravitating systems has been an issue since Einstein proposed general relativity: considered to be ill defined, having no proper local density. Energy-momentum is now regarded as \emph{quasi-local} (associated with a closed…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-11-15 Chiang-Mei Chen , Jian-Liang Liu , James M. Nester

We extend the results of antecedent literature on quadratic Metric-Affine Gravity by studying a new quadratic gravity action in vacuum which, besides the usual (non-Riemannian) Einstein-Hilbert contribution, involves all the parity even…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-12-26 Damianos Iosifidis , Ratbay Myrzakulov , Lucrezia Ravera , Gulmira Yergaliyeva , Koblandy Yerzhanov

We present a first attempt to apply the approach of deformation quantization to linearized Einstein's equations. We use the analogy with Maxwell equations to derive the field equations of linearized gravity from a modified Maxwell…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Hernando Quevedo , Julio G. Tafoya

When describing gravity at high energies it is natural to introduce terms quadratic in the curvature as first corrections to the Einstein-Hilbert action. Static, spherically symmetric classical solutions are studied in the case of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-07-05 Samuele Silveravalle

The first mathematically consistent exact equations of quantum gravity in the Heisenberg representation and Hamilton gauge are obtained. It is shown that the path integral over the canonical variables in the Hamilton gauge is mathematically…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-03-06 Grigory Vereshkov , Leonid Marochnik

Einstein-aether theory is extended by allowing for spinning degrees of freedom of the aether. In addition to the acceleration, shear, expansion, and vorticity of the aether velocity field, a spin rotation describing the dynamics of a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-09-09 Christopher Kohler

We propose a 4-dimensional Kaluza-Klein approach to general relativity in the (2,2)-splitting of space-time using the double null gauge. The associated Lagrangian is equivalent to the Einstein-Hilbert Lagrangian, since it yields the same…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 J. H. Yoon

Quantum field theory (QFT) based on the principles of special relativity (SR) and it is in fact the \emph{kinematic theory of fields}. The root assumption is that there is "relativistic description" of \emph{any} isolated quantum system in…

General Physics · Physics 2018-08-02 Peter Leifer

We consider a discrete model of euclidean quantum gravity in four dimensions based on a summation over random simplicial manifolds. The action used is the Einstein-Hilbert action plus an $R^2$-term. The phase diagram as a function of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-22 J. Ambjorn , J. Jurkiewicz , C. F. Kristjansen

The purely affine Lagrangian for linear electrodynamics, that has the form of the Maxwell Lagrangian in which the metric tensor is replaced by the symmetrized Ricci tensor and the electromagnetic field tensor by the tensor of homothetic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-04-08 Nikodem J. Poplawski

We develop an effective field theory to describe the coupling of non-thermal quantum black holes to particles such as those of the Standard Model. The effective Lagrangian is determined by imposing that the production cross section of a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-28 Xavier Calmet , Dionysios Fragkakis , Nina Gausmann

The quantum gravity is formulated based on gauge principle. The model discussed in this paper has local gravitational gauge symmetry and gravitational field is represented by gauge potential. A preliminary study on gravitational gauge group…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-01-17 Ning Wu

We revisit the definition and some of the characteristics of quadratic theories of gravity with torsion. We start from the most general Lagrangian density quadratic in the curvature and torsion tensors. By assuming that General Relativity…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-11-07 Teodor Borislavov Vasilev , Jose A. R. Cembranos , Jorge Gigante Valcarcel , Prado Martín-Moruno

Dynamics of quantized free fields ( of spin 0 and 1/2 ) contained in a subspace $V_*$ of an N+4 dimensional flat space $V$ is studied. The space $V_*$ is considered as a neighborhood of a four dimensional submanifold $M$ arbitrarily…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-22 Toshiki Isse