COMMENT ON THE CHOICE OF TIME IN A TWO-COMPONENT FORMULATION OF THE WHEELER–DEWITT EQUATION

DOI10.1142/S0218271807010705MaRDI QIDQ3500276zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Marc Thibeault, C. Simeone

Publication date 3 June 2008

Published in International Journal of Modern Physics D (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0609102

zbMATH Keywords

global phase timemini-superspaceWheeler-DeWitt equation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45) Relativistic cosmology (83F05)

Abstract: The two-component formalism in quantum cosmology is revisited with a particular emphasis on the identification of time. Its relation with the appearance of imaginary eigenvalues is established. It is explicitly shown how a good choice of the global time prevents this peculiarity.

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