Gravitational Phase Operator and Cosmic Strings
arXiv:gr-qc/9507049 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.53.779
Abstract
A quantum equivalence principle is formulated by means of a gravitational phase operator which is an element of the Poincare group. This is applied to the spinning cosmic string which suggests that it may (but not necessarily) contain gravitational torsion. A new exact solution of the Einstein- Cartan-Sciama-Kibble equations for the gravitational field with torsion is obtained everywhere for a cosmic string with uniform energy density, spin density and flux. A novel effect due to the quantized gravitational field of the cosmic string on the wave function of a particle outside the string is used to argue that spacetime points are not meaningful in quantum gravity.
22 pages, to be published Phys. Rev. D. Some minor changes have been made and a reference has been added to the paper of D.V. Gal'tsov and P.S. Letelier, Phys. Rev. D 47 (1993) 4273, which first contained the metric (2.2) external to the cosmic string. The present paper extends this solution to a regular solution inside the string as well
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