Is there a super-selection rule in quantum cosmology?

DOI10.1134/S0202289319030101zbMATH Open1437.83170arXiv1412.7981OpenAlexW2227408464WikidataQ127330769 ScholiaQ127330769MaRDI QIDQ2297669FDOQ2297669

Authors: E. Sergio Santini 

Publication date: 20 February 2020

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

Abstract: A certain approach to solving the Wheeler-DeWitt equation in quantum cosmology, which is based on a type of super-selection rule by which negative frequency solutions are discarded, is discussed. In a preliminary analysis, we recall well known results in relativistic quantum field theory, showing that adopt this approach of super-selection by discarding a sector of the frequencies, does not lead to acceptable results. In the area of quantum cosmology a qualitatively similar result is obtained: we show that by discarding solutions of negative frequencies, which is usually done in order to demonstrate "strong" results on the resolution of the singularity, important physical processes are lost, namely the existence of cyclic solutions which, under certain reasonable assumptions, can be interpreted as processes of creation-annihilation at the Planck scale, which are typical of any relativistic quantum field theory.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1412.7981

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zbMATH Keywords

Wheeler-DeWitt equationquantum cosmologysuper-selection rule

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General and philosophical questions in quantum theory (81P05) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45) Space-time singularities, cosmic censorship, etc. (83C75) Relativistic cosmology (83F05) Applications of global analysis to the sciences (58Z05)

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