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QUANTUM MECHANICAL CARRIER OF THE IMPRINTS OF GRAVITATION [*]

ULRICH H. GERLACH


Department of Mathematics, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, USA

We exhibit a purely quantum mechanical carrier of the imprints of gravitation by identifying for a relativistic system a property which (i) is independent of its mass and (ii) expresses the Poincare invariance of spacetime in the absence of gravitation. This carrier consists of the phase and amplitude correlations of waves in oppositely accelerating frames. These correlations are expressed as a Klein-Gordon-equation-determined vector field whose components are the ``Planckian power'' and the ``r.m.s. thermal fluctuation'' spectra. The imprints themselves are deviations away from this vector field.

PACS numbers: 04.20.Cv, 04.62.+v, 03.65.Pm, 04.90.+e


 

Ulrich Gerlach
1998-02-20