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The Quantum Potential in Gravity and Cosmology

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Quantum Potential: Physics, Geometry and Algebra

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The fundamental role of Bohm’s quantum potential in the treatment of gravity and thus in the general-relativistic domain has been explored by various authors (see, for example, the book of R. Carroll Fluctuations, information, gravity and the quantum potential [1]). Here we focus our attention on a very interesting recent research of A. Shojai and F. Shojai. These two authors examined the behaviour of particles at spin 0 in a curved space-time, demonstrating that quantum potential contributes to the curvature that is added to the classic one and reveals deep and unexpected connections between gravity and the quantum phenomena (Ref. [2, 3] in Chap. 2). To develop the discussion about this topic we refer to the articles [2–14].

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Licata, I., Fiscaletti, D. (2014). The Quantum Potential in Gravity and Cosmology. In: Quantum Potential: Physics, Geometry and Algebra. SpringerBriefs in Physics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-00333-7_3

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