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In discussing Bohr-Sommerfeld-like quantum rules for gravity, it is argued that Einstein's Riemannian theory of general relativity rather leads to a quantum field-mechanics than to a quantum-field theory of gravity. We construct the canonically conjugate coordinates and momenta of this gravito-dynamics in the framework of the Einstein-Cartan teleparallelism.
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v. Borzeszkowski, H.H., de Sabbata, V., Sivaram, C. et al. On the quantization of general relativity in anholonomic variables. Found Phys Lett 9, 157–164 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02186258
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