Time asymmetries in quantum cosmology and the search for boundary conditions to the Wheeler DeWitt equation

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/19/18/308zbMATH Open1029.83017arXivgr-qc/0208076OpenAlexW3103616222MaRDI QIDQ4789698FDOQ4789698

Authors: Gabriel Catren, Rafael Ferraro, Mario Castagnino

Publication date: 6 February 2004

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

Abstract: The paper addresses the quantization of minisuperspace cosmological models by studying a possible solution to the problem of time and time asymmetries in quantum cosmology. Since General Relativity does not have a privileged time variable of the newtonian type, it is necessary, in order to have a dynamical evolution, to select a physical clock. This choice yields, in the proposed approach, to the breaking of the so called clock-reversal invariance of the theory which is clearly distinguished from the well known motion-reversal invariance of both classical and quantum mechanics. In the light of this new perspective, the problem of imposing proper boundary conditions on the space of solutions of the Wheeler-DeWitt equation is reformulated. The symmetry-breaking formalism of previous papers is analyzed and a clarification of it is proposed in order to satisfy the requirements of the new interpretation.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0208076

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zbMATH Keywords

canonical gravity minisuperspace models problem of time Wheeler-DeWitt equations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45) Relativistic cosmology (83F05) Constrained dynamics, Dirac's theory of constraints (70H45)

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