Against the Wheeler - DeWitt equation

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/12/12/003MaRDI QIDQ4864063zbMATHOpenAlexFDO

Authors Klaas Landsman

Publication date 29 January 1996

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9510033

zbMATH Keywords

quantizationWheeler-DeWitt equationADM approach

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45) Geometric quantization (53D50) Applications of global analysis to the sciences (58Z05)

Abstract: The ADM approach to canonical general relativity combined with Dirac's method of quantizing constrained systems leads to the Wheeler-DeWitt equation. A number of mathematical as well as physical difficulties that arise in connection with this equation may be circumvented if one employs a covariant Hamiltonian method in conjunction with a recently developed, mathematically rigorous technique to quantize constrained systems using Rieffel induction. The classical constraints are cleanly separated into four components of a covariant momentum map coming from the diffeomorphism group of spacetime, each of which is linear in the canonical momenta, plus a single finite-dimensional quadratic constraint that arises in any theory, parametrized or not. The new quantization method is carried through in a minisuperspace example, and is found to produce a ``wavefunction of the universe". This differs from the proposals of both Vilenkin and Hartle-Hawking for a closed FRW universe, but happens to coincide with the latter in the open case.

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