Quantum mechanics of Klein--Gordon-type fields and quantum cosmology.
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Publication:1421913
DOI10.1016/J.AOP.2003.08.010zbMATH Open1038.83012arXivgr-qc/0306003OpenAlexW3103833750MaRDI QIDQ1421913FDOQ1421913
Publication date: 3 February 2004
Published in: Annals of Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)
Abstract: We formulate the quantum mechanics of the solutions of a Klein-Gordon-type field equation: (partial_t^2+D)psi(t)=0, where D is a positive-definite operator acting in a Hilbert space ilde H. We determine all the positive-definite inner products on the space H of the solutions of such an equation and establish their physical equivalence. We use a simple realization of the unique Hilbert space structure on H to construct the observables of the theory explicitly. In general, there are infinitely many choices for the Hamiltonian each leading to a different notion of time-evolution in H. Among these is a particular choice that generates t-translations in H and identifies t with time whenever D is t-independent. For a t-dependent D, we show that t-translations never correspond to unitary evolutions in H, and t cannot be identified with time. We apply these ideas to develop a formulation of quantum cosmology based on the Wheeler-DeWitt equation for a Friedman-Robertson-Walker model coupled to a real scalar field. We solve the Hilbert space problem, construct the observables, introduce a new set of the wave functions of the universe, reformulate the quantum theory in terms of the latter, reduce the problem of time to the determination of a Hamiltonian operator acting in L^2(R)oplus L^2(R), show that the factor-ordering problem is irrelevant for the kinematics of the quantum theory, and propose a formulation of the dynamics. Our method allows for a genuine probabilistic interpretation and a unitary Schreodinger time-evolution.
Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0306003
Wheeler-DeWitt equationquantum cosmologyRobertson-Walker modelHilbert-space-problemKlein-Gordon-type fields
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