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Simulataneous Hamiltonian treatment of Class A spacetimes and reduction of degrees of freedom at the quantum level (English)
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13 July 2003
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One of the approaches to quantise gravity is the canonical formulation, resulting in the Wheeler-DeWitt equation. Since the full equations are in general not tractable, one often studies simple models obtained from quantising a limited set of variables. The present authors study the quantisation of a general Bianchi-type A model (describing a homogeneous, but anisotropic universe). They formulate the Wheeler-DeWitt equation in terms of three quantities -- the determinant of the three-metric and two scalar contractions of the metric and the structure coefficients. Since this is still a complicated equation, which cannot be solved analytically, the authors end with studying the possibility to reduce the number of degrees of freedom at the quantum level.
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quantum cosmology
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Wheeler-DeWitt equation
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