A Possible Mechanism of Gravity

Abstract

We consider systems of two free particles in de Sitter invariant quantum theory and calculate the mean value of the mass operator for such systems. It is shown that, in addition to the well known relativistic contribution (and de Sitter antigravity which is small when the de Sitter radius is large), there also exists a contribution caused by the fact that certain decomposition coefficients have different phases. Such a contribution is negative and proportional to the particle masses in the nonrelativistic approximation. In particular, for a class of two-body wave functions the mean value is described by standard Newtonian gravity and post Newtonian corrections in General Relativity. This poses the problem whether gravity can be explained without using the notion of interaction at all. We discuss a hypothesis that gravity is a manifestation of Galois fields in quantum physics.