Mean-field quantum gravity

Details Mean-field quantum gravity Mean-field quantum gravity

Aug 1992

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1992phrvd..46.1566f&link_type=abstract

Physical Review D (Particles, Fields, Gravitation, and Cosmology), Volume 46, Issue 4, 15 August 1992, pp.1566-1579

Physics

14

Scientific paper

We describe a new approach to quantum gravity, based on a kind of mean-field approximation. The action, which we choose to be quadratic in curvature and torsion, is made polynomial by replacing the inverse vierbein by its mean value. This action is used to compute the effective action for the vierbein and hence its vacuum expectation value. Self-consistency is then enforced by requiring that this vacuum expectation value be proportional to the mean field. We have explicitly carried out this self-consistent procedure at one loop in the case of a mean field corresponding to Minkowski space, de Sitter space, and in the long-wavelength limit for a generic space. General relativity is recovered as a low-energy approximation.

Affiliated with

Also associated with

No associations

Rating

Mean-field quantum gravity does not yet have a rating. At this time, there are no reviews or comments for this scientific paper.

If you have personal experience with Mean-field quantum gravity, we encourage you to share that experience with our LandOfFree.com community. Your opinion is very important and Mean-field quantum gravity will most certainly appreciate the feedback.

Rate now

Comments { 0 }

Profile ID: LFWR-SCP-O-1168779