Refractive gravitational waves and quantum fluctuations

Details Refractive gravitational waves and quantum fluctuations Refractive gravitational waves and quantum fluctuations

2000-11-14

arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0011051v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

amslatex, 7 pages

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Refractive gravitational waves are a generalisation of impulsive waves on a null hypersurface in which the metric is discontinuous but a weaker continuity condition for areas holds. A simple example of a plane wave is examined in detail and two arguments are given that this should be considered a solution of Einstein's vacuum field equations. The study of these waves is motivated by quantum gravity, where the refractive plane waves are considered as elementary quantum fluctuations and the `area geometry' of a null hypersurface plays a primary role.

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