Quantum Models à la Gabor for the Space-Time Metric

Abstract

As an extension of Gabor signal processing, the covariant Weyl-Heisenberg integral quantization is implemented to transform functions on the eight-dimensional phase space x,k into Hilbertian operators. The x=xμ values are space-time variables, and the k=kμ values are their conjugate frequency-wave vector variables. The procedure is first applied to the variables x,k and produces essentially canonically conjugate self-adjoint operators. It is next applied to the metric field gμν(x) of general relativity and yields regularized semi-classical phase space portraits gˇμν(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.