Unitary evolution for a quantum Kantowski-Sachs cosmology

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/32/20/205005zbMATH Open1327.83285arXiv1506.02770OpenAlexW1506101505MaRDI QIDQ3453159FDOQ3453159

Authors: Sridip Pal, Narayan Banerjee 

Publication date: 20 November 2015

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

Abstract: It is shown that like Bianchi I, V and IX models, a Kantowski-Sachs cosmological model also allows a unitary evolution on quantization. It has also been shown that this unitarity is not at the expense of the anisotropy. Non-unitarity, if there is any, cannot escape notice in this as the evolution is studied against a properly oriented time parameter fixed by the evolution of the fluid. Furthermore, we have constructed a wave-packet by superposing different energy eigenstates, thereby establishing unitarity in a non-trivial way, which is a stronger result than an energy eigenstate trivially giving time independent probability density. For $alphaeq1$, we have proved that the Hamiltonian upon suitable operator ordering admits a self-adjoint extension under reasonable assumption, using a standard theorem. This consolidates the recently shown fact that the problem of non-unitarity cannot be a generic problem of anisotropy.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1506.02770

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zbMATH Keywords

quantum cosmologyunitaryKantowski-Sachs modelSchutz formalism

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum field theory on curved space or space-time backgrounds (81T20) Exact solutions to problems in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C15) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45) Relativistic cosmology (83F05)

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