21–26 Jun 2026
U. Ottawa - Learning Crossroads (CRX) Building
America/Toronto timezone
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Anomaly in canonical semiclassical gravity

23 Jun 2026, 16:45
15m
U. Ottawa - Learning Crossroads (CRX) Building

U. Ottawa - Learning Crossroads (CRX) Building

100 Louis-Pasteur Private, Ottawa, ON K1N 9N3
Oral Competition (Graduate Student) / Compétition orale (Étudiant(e) du 2e ou 3e cycle) Theoretical Physics / Physique théorique (DTP-DPT) (DTP) T3-2 | (DPT)

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)

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