Relational Quantum Causal Processes toward Quantum Gravity with Controlled Einstein Response

Abstract

We construct a finite-Hilbert interacting quantum model in which matter and geometric response are generated by a single Schwinger functional along one spatial refinement. Two inequivalent discretizations converge analytically to the same Hamiltonian on a fixed physical Fourier band, with second- and fourth-order regulator bounds. The common limit determines the excitation gap, connected nonlinear matter response, mixed matter-geometry susceptibility, and low-frequency geometric kernel. Within a prescribed covariant two-derivative FLRW sector, the latter fixes a positive induced Newton coefficient without an additional normalization parameter. The same spectral data define a conserved excitation stress and a regulator-stable semiclassical Friedmann trajectory. These results establish a common regulator limit for interaction, response, and backreaction within one microscopic family. The construction is restricted to a two-mode Fourier band, a finite oscillator cutoff, and a prescribed semiclassical gravitational sector; an interacting all-band quantum field theory with dynamical geometry is not constructed here.

10 pages, 2 figures; Supplemental Material included as ancillary files; reproducibility archive: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22073562