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Nov14-06, 03:16 PM   #1
 

Quantum energies of GR..


If we apply the Bohr-Sommerfeld quantization to GR (semiclassical)

[tex] \oint_{S} \pi _{ab} dg_{ab}=\hbar (n+1/2) [/tex]

In this case if "Energies" (or whatever you call energy since in Quantum GR H=0 for the "Hamiltonian constraint" ) then using Einstein equation we see that the "curvature" (quantum version) can't be arbitrary (curvature of the surface is quantizied) and that the WKB wave function would be:

[tex] \Psi=e^{iS/\hbar} [/tex] of course the question there is if we can get the action S from the HIlbert-Einstein Lagrangian, or if the WKB method for energies and wavefunctions applied here.
 
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A technical question:
What is S in your first equation?
(Obviously, not the same as S in the second one.)
 
Nov15-06, 03:56 PM   #3
 
Oh..sory "Demystifier"..i forgot to change the letter.. one "S" is the action the other is just to indicate that the integral is performed over a close Hyper-surface on R-4 space (in a similar fashion ot usual WKB formula) i will change it.
 
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