Observables and a Hilbert space for Bianchi IX

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/12/6/010zbMATH Open0823.53068arXivgr-qc/9409049OpenAlexW3098506413WikidataQ62398230 ScholiaQ62398230MaRDI QIDQ4838575FDOQ4838575

Authors: Donald Marolf 

Publication date: 17 October 1995

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

Abstract: We consider a quantization of the Bianchi IX cosmological model based on taking the constraint to be a self-adjoint operator in an auxiliary Hilbert space. Using a WKB-style self-consistent approximation, the constraint chosen is shown to have only continuous spectrum at zero. Nevertheless, the auxiliary space induces an inner product on the zero-eigenvalue generalized eigenstates such that the resulting physical Hilbert space has countably infinite dimension. In addition, a complete set of gauge-invariant operators on the physical space is constructed by integrating differential forms over the spacetime. The behavior of these operators indicates that this quantization preserves Wald's classical result that the Bianchi IX spacetimes expand to a maximum volume and then recollapse.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9409049

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zbMATH Keywords

quantizationphysical Hilbert spacequantum observablesBianchi IX cosmological model

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45) Relativistic cosmology (83F05)

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