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Bianchi-I classical and quantum spinor cosmology with signature change

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2009-11-11 v2 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We study the classical and quantum evolution of a universe in which the matter source is a massive Dirac spinor field and the universe is described by a Bianchi type I metric. We focus attention on those classical solutions that admit a degenerate metric in which the scale factors have smooth behavior in transition from a Euclidean to a Lorentzian domain and show that this transition happens when the cosmological constant, Λ\Lambda, is negative. The resulting quantum cosmology and the corresponding Wheeler-DeWitt equation are also studied and closed form expressions for the wave functions of the universe is presented. We have shown that there is a close relationship between the quantum states and signature changing classical solutions, suggesting a mechanism for creation of a Lorentzian universe from a Euclidean region by a continuous change of signature. The quantum solutions also represent a quantization rule for the mass of the spinor field.

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@article{arxiv.gr-qc/0508090,
  title  = {Bianchi-I classical and quantum spinor cosmology with signature change},
  author = {B. Vakili and H. R. Sepangi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/0508090},
  year   = {2009}
}

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