TY - JOUR
T1 - QUANTUM THEORY AND THE EQUIVALENCE PRINCIPLE.
AU - Davies, P. C.W.
AU - Fang, J.
N1 - Copyright:
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PY - 1982
Y1 - 1982
N2 - The article deals with the principle of gravity in atomic scale and treats the linearized gravitational perturbations as a massless, spin-two, gauge field coupled to itself and to matter, and argues that a consistent theory of this type, based on an action principle, is impossible unless the gravitational coupling is universal. The argument derives from a set of consistency conditions connecting successive orders of the perturbation expansion.
AB - The article deals with the principle of gravity in atomic scale and treats the linearized gravitational perturbations as a massless, spin-two, gauge field coupled to itself and to matter, and argues that a consistent theory of this type, based on an action principle, is impossible unless the gravitational coupling is universal. The argument derives from a set of consistency conditions connecting successive orders of the perturbation expansion.
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M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0020477433
SN - 0080-4630
VL - 381
SP - 469
EP - 478
JO - Proceedings of The Royal Society of London, Series A: Mathematical and Physical Sciences
JF - Proceedings of The Royal Society of London, Series A: Mathematical and Physical Sciences
IS - 1781
ER -