Cosmological constant and Euclidean space from nonperturbative quantum torsion

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.