Quantized Cosmology: A Simple Approach

Technical Report · Thu Jun 03 04:00:00 EDT 2004

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/826998· OSTI ID:826998

Weinstein, M ^[1]

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1. SLAC

I discuss the problem of inflation in the context of Friedmann-Robertson-Walker Cosmology and show how, after a simple change of variables, to quantize the problem in a way which parallels the classical discussion. The result is that two of the Einstein equations arise as exact equations of motion and one of the usual Einstein equations (suitably quantized) survives as a constraint equation to be imposed on the space of physical states. However, the Friedmann equation, which is also a constraint equation and which is the basis of the Wheeler-deWitt equation, acquires a welcome quantum correction that becomes significant for small scale factors. To clarify how things work in this formalism I briefly outline the way in which our formalism works for the exactly solvable case of de-Sitter space.

• Research Organization: Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, Menlo Park, CA (US)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Science (US)
• DOE Contract Number: AC03-76SF00515
• OSTI ID: 826998
• Report Number(s): SLAC-PUB-10479
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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71 CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS
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STANFORD LINEAR ACCELERATOR CENTER