A generalized Hartle-Hawking wave function

DOI10.1088/1361-6382/ABF2F6MaRDI QIDQ5163376zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Stephon Alexander, Gabriel Herczeg, João Magueijo

Publication date 3 November 2021

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.08603

zbMATH Keywords

torsionquantum cosmologywavefunction of the universeloop quantum cosmologyHartle-Hawking stateChern-Simons state

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Functional analysis on superspaces (supermanifolds) or graded spaces (46S60) Eta-invariants, Chern-Simons invariants (58J28) Determinants and determinant bundles, analytic torsion (58J52) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45) Relativistic cosmology (83F05) Constrained dynamics, Dirac's theory of constraints (70H45) Quantum state spaces, operational and probabilistic concepts (81P16)

Abstract: The Hartle-Hawking wave function is known to be the Fourier dual of the Chern-Simons or Kodama state reduced to mini-superspace, using an integration contour covering the whole real line. But since the Chern-Simons state is a general solution of the Hamiltonian constraint (with a given ordering), its Fourier dual should provide the general solution (i.e. beyond mini-superspace) of the Wheeler DeWitt equation representing the Hamiltonian constraint in the metric representation. We write down a formal expression for such a wave function, to be seen as the generalization beyond mini-superspace of the Hartle-Hawking wave function. Its explicit evaluation (or simplification) depends only on the symmetries of the problem, and we illustrate the procedure with anisotropic Bianchi models and with the Kantowski-Sachs model. A significant difference of this approach is that we may leave the torsion inside the wave functions when we set up the ansatz for the connection, rather than setting it to zero before quantization. This allows for quantum fluctuations in the torsion, with far reaching consequences.

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