Quantum Mechanics without spacetime V - Why a quantum theory of gravity should be non-linear-

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2005-03-30

arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0503116v2

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

slightly expanded version; clarifying comments added; conclusions unchanged; 12 pages

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If there exists a formulation of quantum mechanics which does not refer to a background classical spacetime manifold, it then follows as a consequence, (upon making one plausible assumption), that a quantum description of gravity should be necessarily non-linear. This is true independent of the mathematical structure used for describing such a formulation of quantum mechanics. A specific model which exhibits this non-linearity is constructed, using the language of noncommutative geometry. We derive a non-linear Schrodinger equation for the quantum dynamics of a particle; this equation reduces to the standard linear Schrodinger equation when the mass of the particle is much smaller than Planck mass. It turns out that the non-linear equation found by us is very similar to a non-linear Schrodinger equation found by Doebner and Goldin in 1992 from considerations of unitary representaions of the infinite-dimensional group of diffeomorphisms in three spatial dimensions. Our analysis suggests that the diffusion constant introduced by Doebner and Goldin depends on the mass of the particle, and that this constant tends to zero in the limit in which the particle mass is much smaller than Planck mass, so that in this limit the non-linear theory reduces to standard linear quantum mechanics. A similar effective non-linear Schrodinger equation was also found for the quantum dynamics of a system of D0-branes, by Mavromatos and Szabo.

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