The constraints of post-quantum classical gravity

2020 
We study a class of theories in which space-time is treated classically, while interacting with quantum fields. These circumvent various no-go theorems and the pathologies of semi-classical gravity, by being linear in the density matrix and stochastic on the classical phase-space. The theory can either be considered fundamental or an effective theory where the classical limit is taken of space-time. The theories have the dynamics of general relativity as their classical limit and provide a way to study the back-action of quantum fields on the space-time metric. Here, we provide a methadology to derive the constraint equations of such a theory by imposing invariance of the dynamics under time-reparametrization invariance. This leads to generalisations of the Hamiltonian and momentum constraints, and we compute their algebra for the case of a quantum scalar field interacting with gravity.
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