von Neumann stability of modified loop quantum cosmologies

DOI10.1088/1361-6382/AB1608zbMATH Open1475.83039arXiv1901.01279OpenAlexW3103479229WikidataQ64298162 ScholiaQ64298162MaRDI QIDQ3380424FDOQ3380424

Authors: Sahil Saini, Parampreet Singh 

Publication date: 28 September 2021

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

Abstract: Von Neumann stability analysis of quantum difference equations in loop quantized spacetimes has often proved useful to understand viability of quantizations and whether general relativistic description is recovered at small spacetime curvatures. We use this technique to analyze the infra-red behavior of quantum Hamiltonian constraint in recently explored modifications of loop quantum cosmology: mLQC-I and mLQC-II, for the spatially flat FLRW model. We investigate the behavior for $m{u}_o$ scheme, where minimum area of loops in quantization procedure does not take physical metric in to account, and the $$ scheme where quantization procedure uses physical metric. The fate of stability of quantum difference equations is tested for massless scalar field as well as with inclusion of a positive cosmological constant. We show that for mLQC-I and mLQC-II, difference equation fails to be von Neumann stable for the $m{u}_o$ scheme if cosmological constant is included signaling problematic behavior at large volumes. Both of the modified loop quantum cosmologies are von Neumann stable for $$ scheme. In contrast to standard loop quantum cosmology, properties of roots turn out to be richer and intricate. Our results demonstrate the robustness of $$ scheme (or `improved dynamics') in loop quantization of cosmological spacetimes even when non-trivial quantization ambiguities of Hamiltonian are considered, and show that $m{u}_o$ scheme is non-viable in this setting.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.01279

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zbMATH Keywords

difference equationsvon Neumann stabilitysingularity resolution

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Discrete version of topics in analysis (39A12) Methods of global Riemannian geometry, including PDE methods; curvature restrictions (53C21) Closed and approximate solutions to the Schrödinger, Dirac, Klein-Gordon and other equations of quantum mechanics (81Q05) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45) Relativistic cosmology (83F05) Bifurcations and instability for nonlinear problems in mechanics (70K50) Geometrodynamics and the holographic principle (83E05)

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