Quantum models a la Gabor for space-time metric

Gilles Cohen-Tannoudji, Jean-Pierre Gazeau, Célestin Habonimana, Juma Shabani

Published 2022-05-19Version 1

As an extension of Gabor signal processing, the covariant Weyl-Heisenberg integral quantization is implemented to transform functions on the eight-dimensional phase space $\left(x,k\right)$ into Hilbertian operators. The $x=\left(x^{\mu}\right)$'s are space-time variables and the $k=\left(k^{\mu}\right)$'s are their conjugate wave vector-frequency variables. The procedure is first applied to the variables $\left(x,k\right)$ and produces canonically conjugate essentially self-adjoint operators. It is next applied to the metric field $g_{\mu\nu}(x)$ of general relativity and yields regularised semi-classical phase space portraits $\check{g}_{\mu\nu}(x)$. The latter give rise to modified tensor energy density. Examples are given with the uniformly accelerated reference system and the Schwarzschild metric. Interesting probabilistic aspects are discussed.