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Phys. Rev. D 54, 1500–1513 (1996)

Strong coupling quantum gravity and physics beyond the Planck scale

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Kayoko Maeda* and Makoto Sakamoto
Department of Physics, Kobe University, Rokkodai, Nada, Kobe 657, Japan

Received 11 January 1996; published in the issue dated 15 July 1996

We propose a renormalization prescription for the Wheeler-DeWitt equation of (3+1)-dimensional Einstein gravity and also propose a strong coupling expansion as an approximation scheme to probe quantum geometry at length scales much smaller than the Planck length. We solve the Wheeler-DeWitt equation to the second order in the expansion in a class of local solutions and discuss problems arising in our approach.

© 1996 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevD.54.1500
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevD.54.1500
PACS:
04.60.Ds, 11.10.Gh, 11.15.Me

*Electronic address: maeda@hetsun1.phys.kobe-u.ac.jp

Electronic address: sakamoto@hetsun1.phys.kobe-u.ac.jp