Quantum mechanics on York slices

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/33/6/065001zbMATH Open1338.83043arXiv1507.01556OpenAlexW1689181641MaRDI QIDQ2806012FDOQ2806012

Authors: Philipp Roser 

Publication date: 13 May 2016

Published in: Classical and Quantum Gravity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: For some time the York time parameter has been identified as a candidate for a physically meaningful time in cosmology. An associated Hamiltonian may be found by solving the Hamiltonian constraint for the momentum conjugate to the York time variable, although an explicit solution can only be found in highly symmetric cases. The Poisson structure of the remaining variables is not canonical. Here we quantise this dynamics in an anisotropic minisuperspace model via a natural extension of canonical quantisation. The resulting quantum theory has no momentum representation. Instead the position basis takes a fundamental role. We illustrate how the quantum theory and the modified representation of its momentum operators lead to a consistent theory in the presence of the constraints that arose during the Hamiltonian reduction. We are able to solve for the eigenspectrum of the Hamiltonian. Finally we discuss how far the results of this model extend to the general non-homogeneous case, in particular perturbation theory with York time.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1507.01556

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zbMATH Keywords

Poisson structureYork timequantisationanisotropic minisuperspace model

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Geometry and quantization, symplectic methods (81S10) Quantum field theory on curved space or space-time backgrounds (81T20) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45)

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• An extension of cosmological dynamics with York time
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