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Gravitational collapse into a black hole has been extensively studied with classical sources. We develop a new formalism to simulate quantum fields forming a black hole. By choosing a convenient coherent state, this formalism taps into…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-03-09 Benjamin Berczi , Paul M. Saffin , Shuang-Yong Zhou

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

We construct a fully covariant theory of massive gravity which does not require the introduction of an external reference metric, and overcomes the usual problems of massive gravity theories (fatal ghosts instabilities, acausality and/or…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-15 Maud Jaccard , Michele Maggiore , Ermis Mitsou

The gravity is classically formulated as the geometric curvature of the space-time in general relativity which is completely different from the other well-known physical forces. Since seeking a quantum framework for the gravity is a great…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-09-29 Cao H. Nam

We present a new reformulation of the canonical quantum geometrodynamics, which allows to overcome the fundamental problem of the frozen formalism and, therefore, to construct an appropriate Hilbert space associate to the solution of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Simone Mercuri , Giovanni Montani

The application of quantum theory to gravity is beset with many technical and conceptual problems. After a short tour d'horizon of recent attempts to master those problems by the introduction of new approaches, we show that the aim, a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 D. Grumiller , W. Kummer

Physical spacetime geometry follows from some effective thermodynamics of quantum states of all fields and particles described in frames of General Relativity. In the sense of pure field theoretical Einstein's point of view on gravitation…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-08-27 L. A. Glinka

We review some of the recent results which can be useful for better understanding of the problem of stability of vacuum and in general classical solutions in higher derivative quantum gravity. The fourth derivative terms in the purely…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-08-29 Filipe de O. Salles , Ilya L. Shapiro

We present the construction of a gravitational action including an infinite series of higher derivative terms. The outcome is a classically consistent completion of a well-studied quadratic curvature theory. The closed form for the full…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-10-12 Brage Gording , Angnis Schmidt-May

In a recent paper we have suggested that a formulation of quantum mechanics should exist, which does not require the concept of time, and that the appropriate mathematical language for such a formulation is noncommutative differential…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-25 T. P. Singh

In loop quantum cosmology, non-perturbative quantum gravity effects lead to the resolution of the big bang singularity by a quantum bounce without introducing any new degrees of freedom. Though fundamentally discrete, the theory admits a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-05-12 Gonzalo J. Olmo , Parampreet Singh

Is there an approach to quantum gravity which is conceptually simple, relies on very few fundamental physical principles and ingredients, emphasizes geometric (as opposed to algebraic) properties, comes with a definite numerical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 R. Loll

A de-Sitter gauge theory of the gravitational field is developed using a spherical symmetric Minkowski space-time as base manifold. The gravitational field is described by gauge potentials and the mathematical structure of the underlying…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 G. Zet , C. D. Oprisan , S. Babeti

The effective action in renormalizable quantum theory of gravity provides entropy because the total Hamiltonian vanishes. Since it is a renormalization group invariant that is constant in the process of cosmic evolution, we can show…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-05-15 Ken-ji Hamada

We describe a simple gauge-fixing that leads to a construction of a quantum Hilbert space for quantum gravity in an asymptotically Anti de Sitter spacetime, valid to all orders of perturbation theory. The construction is motivated by a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-06-28 Edward Witten

We introduce new techniques that can preserve unitarity of the system including ghost particles. Negative norms of the particles can be involved in zero-norm states by constraints of the physical space. These are useful to apply the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-10-26 Hajime Isimori

In this manuscript we will present the theoretical framework of the recently proposed infinite derivative theory of gravity with a non-symmetric connection. We will explicitly derive the field equations at the linear level and obtain new…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-11-21 Álvaro de la Cruz-Dombriz , Francisco José Maldonado Torralba , Anupam Mazumdar

General relativity successfully describes space-times at scales that we can observe and probe today, but it cannot be complete as a consequence of singularity theorems. For a long time there have been indications that quantum gravity will…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Martin Bojowald

We review some aspects of three-dimensional quantum gravity with emphasis in the `CFT -> Geometry' map that follows from the Brown-Henneaux conformal algebra. The general solution to the classical equations of motion with anti-de Sitter…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 Maximo Banados

In this contribution we deal with several issues one encounters when trying to couple quantum matter to classical gravitational fields. We start with a general background discussion and then move on to two more technical sections. In the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-10-13 Domenico Giulini , André Großardt , Philip K. Schwartz