Cosmological constant and Euclidean space from nonperturbative quantum torsion

2014

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DOI 10.1142/s0219887815500085
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Abstract

Heisenberg's nonperturbative quantization technique is applied to the nonperturbative quantization of gravity. An infinite set of equations for all Green's functions is obtained. An approximation is considered where: (a) the metric remains as a classical field; (b) the affine connection can be decomposed into classical and quantum parts; (c) the classical part of the affine connection is the Christoffel symbols; (d) the quantum part is the torsion. Using a scalar and vector fields approximation it is shown that nonperturbative quantum effects give rise to a cosmological constant and an Euclidean solution.