Speaker
Irfan Javed
(University of New Brunswick)
Description
We show that the canonical formulation of the semiclassical Einstein equation, where the matter terms in the constraints are replaced by expectation values of the corresponding operators in quantum states, is inconsistent due to the nonclosure of the resulting constraint algebra.
| Keyword-1 | Semiclassical gravity |
|---|---|
| Keyword-2 | Canonical formulation |
| Keyword-3 | Anomaly |
Author
Irfan Javed
(University of New Brunswick)