What is dynamics in quantum gravity?

DOI10.1088/1361-6382/AA89F6MaRDI QIDQ4603088zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Przemysław Małkiewicz

Publication date 19 February 2018

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1505.04730

zbMATH Keywords

Hamiltonian constrainttime problemFriedmann-Lemaitre modelinternal clockcanonical formalism of gravitysemiclassical framework

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Philosophical and critical aspects of logic and foundations (03A05) Quantum field theory on curved space or space-time backgrounds (81T20) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45) Relativistic cosmology (83F05)

Abstract: The appearance of Hamiltonian constraint in the canonical formalism for general relativity reflects the lack of a fixed external time. The dynamics of general relativistic systems can be expressed with respect to an arbitrarily chosen internal degree of freedom, the so called internal clock. We investigate the way in which the choice of internal clock determines the quantum dynamics and how much different quantum dynamics induced by different clocks are. We develop our method of comparison by extending the Hamilton-Jacobi theory of contact transformations to include a new type of transformations which transform both the canonical variables and the internal clock. We employ our method to study the quantum dynamics of the Friedmann-Lemaitre model and obtain semiclassical corrections to the classical dynamics, which depend on the choice of internal clock. For a unique quantisation map we find the abundance of inequivalent semiclassical corrections induced by quantum dynamics taking place in different internal clocks. It follows that the concepts like minimal volume, maximal curvature and the number of quantum bounces, often used to describe quantum effects in cosmological models, depend on the choice of internal clock.

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