QUANTUM THEORY AND THE EQUIVALENCE PRINCIPLE.

P. C.W. Davies; J. Fang

QUANTUM THEORY AND THE EQUIVALENCE PRINCIPLE.

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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.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	469-478
Number of pages	10
Journal	Proceedings of The Royal Society of London, Series A: Mathematical and Physical Sciences
Volume	381
Issue number	1781
State	Published - 1982
Externally published	Yes

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