The problem of time and gauge invariance in the quantization of cosmological models. II: Recent developments in the path integral approach

zbMATH Open1206.83177arXivgr-qc/0409119MaRDI QIDQ1776321FDOQ1776321

T. P. Shestakova, C. Simeone

Publication date: 23 May 2005

Published in: Gravitation \& Cosmology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The paper is the second part of the work devoted to the problem of time in quantum cosmology. Here we consider in detail two approaches within the scope of Feynman path integration scheme: The first, by Simeone and collaborators, is gauge-invariant and lies within the unitary approach to a consistent quantization of gravity. It is essentially based on the idea of deparametrization (reduction to physical degrees of freedom) as a first step before quantization. The other approach by Savchenko, Shestakova and Vereshkov is rather radical. It is an attempt to take into account peculiarities of the Universe as a system without asymptotic states that leads to the conclusion that quantum geometrodynamics constructed for such a system is, in general, a gauge-noninvariant theory. However, this theory is shown to be mathematically consistent and the problem of time is solved in this theory in a natural way.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0409119

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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• Wave function of the universe, path integrals and gauge invariance

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