Initial wave function of the universe is arbitrary

DOI10.1142/S021773231950295XMaRDI QIDQ5205265zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Ali Kaya

Publication date 11 December 2019

Published in Modern Physics Letters A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.00199

zbMATH Keywords

minisuperspace approximationquantum cosmology

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45) Relativistic cosmology (83F05)

Abstract: We consider quantization of the gravity-scalar field system in the minisuperspace approximation. It turns out that in the gauge fixed deparametrized theory where the scale factor plays the role of time, the Hamiltonian can be uniquely defined without any ordering ambiguity as the square root of a self-adjoint operator. Moreover, the Hamiltonian degenerates to zero and the Schr"{o}dinger equation becomes well behaved as the scale factor vanishes. Therefore, there is no technical or physical obstruction for the initial wave-function of the universe to be an arbitrary vector in the Hilbert space, which demonstrates the severeness of the initial condition problem in quantum cosmology.

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