Time-dependent Green functions in quantum cosmology

DOI10.1016/S0550-3213(97)80042-9MaRDI QIDQ678308zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors R. Parentani

Publication date 16 April 1997

Published in Nuclear Physics B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9610044

zbMATH Keywords

quantum gravityEinstein equationsWheeler-DeWitt equationbackground geometryfirst-order energy incrementinverse Planck mass expansion

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45)

Abstract: The aim of this article is twofold. First we examine from a new angle the question of recovery of time in quantum cosmology. We construct Green functions for matter fields from the solutions of the Wheeler De Witt equation. For simplicity we work in a mini-superspace context. By evaluating these Green functions in a first order development of the energy ``increment induced by matrix elements of field operators, we show that the background geometry is the solution of Einstein equations driven by the mean matter energy and that it is this background which determines the time lapses separating the field operators. Then, by studying higher order corrections, we clarify the nature of the small dimensionless parameters which guarantee the validity of the approximations used. In this respect, we show that the formal expansion in the inverse Planck mass which is sometime presented as the ``standard procedure is illegitimate. Secondly, by the present analysis of Green functions, we prepare the study of quantum matter transitions in quantum cosmology. In a next article, we show that the time parametrization of transition amplitudes appears for the same reasons that it appeared in this article. This proves that the background is dynamically determined by the transition under examination.

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