For purposes of quantization, classical gravity is normally expressed by canonical variables, namely the metric and the momentum . Canonical quantization requires a proper promotion of these classical variables to quantum operators, which, according to Dirac, the favored operators should be those arising from classical variables that formed Cartesian coordinates;sadly, in this case, that is not possible. However, an affine quantization features promoting the metric and the momentric to operators. Instead of these classical variables belonging to a constant zero curvature space (i.e., instead of a flat space), they belong to a space of constant negative curvatures. This feature may even have its appearance in black holes, which could strongly point toward an affine quantization approach to quantize gravity.
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