Troubles with quantum anisotropic cosmological models: Loss of unitarity (Q1413798)

The authors study the quantum model of a Bianchi I Universe with a perfect fluid, with an anisotropic pressure, employing Schutz's description for perfect fluid. The minisuperspace approach is used. The aim is to verify if quantum effects may suppress the anisotropies in the same way they have suppressed the initial singularity in the anisotropic case. In doing this analysis, an unexpected feature of anisotropic quantum cosmological models appears: the norm of the wave function comes out to be time dependent. Hence, the quantum model is non-unitary. The reason for this loss of unitarity is due, in the authors' opinion, to the fact that the kinetic term of the effective Hamiltonian is not positive definite and, at the same time, due to the measure in the original gravitational action.