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Classical and quantum gravity from relativistic quantum mechanics

General Physics 2023-07-18 v5

Abstract

It is common practice to describe elementary particles by irreducible unitary representations of the Poincar\'e group. In the same way, multi-particle systems can be described by irreducible unitary representations of the Poincar\'e group. Representations of the Poincar\'e group are characterised by fixed eigenvalues of two Casimir operators corresponding to a fixed mass and a fixed angular momentum. In multi-particle systems (of massive spinless particles), fixing these eigenvalues leads to correlations between the particles. In the quasi-classical approximation of large quantum numbers, these correlations take on the structure of a gravitational interaction described by the field equations of conformal gravity. A theoretical value of the corresponding gravitational constant is calculated. It agrees with the empirical value used in the field equations of general relativity.

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@article{arxiv.2211.04795,
  title  = {Classical and quantum gravity from relativistic quantum mechanics},
  author = {Walter Smilga},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2211.04795},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

Some changes in the formulations. 10 pages

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