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Revisiting the quantum scalar field in spherically symmetric quantum gravity

Eckhard StrobelEnrique F. BorjaEnrique F. BorjaIñaki GarayIñaki Garay

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PhysicsGravitationGeneral Relativity and Quantum CosmologyVariational methodPhysics and Astronomy (miscellaneous)Schwarzschild metricQuantum gravityLoop quantum gravityScalar fieldSchwarzschild radiusGeneral Relativity and Quantum CosmologyFock spaceMathematical physics

description

We extend previous results in spherically symmetric gravitational systems coupled with a massless scalar field within the loop quantum gravity framework. As starting point, we take the Schwarzschild spacetime. The results presented here rely on the uniform discretization method. We are able to minimize the associated discrete master constraint using a variational method. The trial state for the vacuum consists of a direct product of a Fock vacuum for the matter part and a Gaussian centered around the classical Schwarzschild solution. This paper follows the line of research presented by Gambini, Pullin and Rastgoo and a comparison between their result and the one given in this work is made.

yearjournalcountryeditionlanguage
2012-01-20
10.1088/0264-9381/29/14/145012http://arxiv.org/abs/1201.4229