Mini-superspace universality and no-scale quantum cosmology

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSLETB.2019.134945MaRDI QIDQ2187208zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Tomer Ygael, Aharon Davidson

Publication date 2 June 2020

Published in Physics Letters B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.02959

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Gravitational interaction in quantum theory (81V17) Kaluza-Klein and other higher-dimensional theories (83E15) Relativistic cosmology (83F05)

Abstract: We prove that, at the mini superspace level, and for an arbitrary Brans-Dicke parameter, one cannot tell traditional Einstein-Hilbert gravity from local scale invariant Weyl-Dirac gravity. Both quantum mechanical cosmologies are governed by the one and the same time-independent single-variable Hartle-Hawking wave function. It is only that its original argument, the cosmic scale factor $a$, is replaced by $aphi$ ($phi$ being the dilaton field) to form a Dirac in-scalar. The Weyl vector enters quantum cosmology only in the presence of an extra dimension, where its fifth component, serving as a 4-dim Kaluza-Klein in-scalar, governs the near Big Bang behavior of the wave function. The case of a constant Kaluza-Klein in-radius is discussed in some detail.

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