Problem of Unitarity and Quantum Corrections in Semiclassical Quantum Gravity
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Using the Born-Oppenheimer idea we show that the Wheeler-DeWitt equation in an oscillating regime can also allow a different type of semiclassical quantum gravity that preserves completely the unitary quantum evolution of a matter field, which reduces the same asymptotic limit as the others. We develop a perturbation method to find the quantum corrections of a matter field to the gravity. The semiclassical Einstein equation with quantum corrections is found for a minimal quantum FRW cosmological model. Typeset using REVTEX 1
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