Wave functions for arbitrary operator ordering in the de Sitter minisuperspace approximation

DOI10.1023/A:1001932502138MaRDI QIDQ1584760zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors David L. Wiltshire

Publication date 5 November 2000

Published in General Relativity and Gravitation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9905090

zbMATH Keywords

quantum cosmologyWheeler-DeWitt equation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

Abstract: We derive exact series solutions for the Wheeler-DeWitt equation corresponding to a spatially closed Friedmann-Robertson-Walker universe with cosmological constant for arbitrary operator ordering of the scale factor of the universe. The resulting wave functions are those relevant to the approximation which has been widely used in two-dimensional minisuperspace models with an inflationary scalar field for the purpose of predicting the period of inflation which results from competing boundary condition proposals for the wave function of the universe. The problem that Vilenkin's tunneling wave function is not normalizable for general operator orderings, is shown to persist for other values of the spatial curvature, and when additional matter degrees of freedom such as radiation are included.

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