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Canonical wave packets in quantum cosmology

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2008-11-26 v4

Abstract

We discuss the construction of wave packets resulting from the solutions of a class of Wheeler-DeWitt equations in Robertson-Walker type cosmologies, for arbitrary curvature. We show that there always exists a ``canonical initial slope" for a given initial wave function, which optimizes some desirable properties of the resulting wave packet, most importantly good classical-quantum correspondence. This can be properly denoted as a canonical wave packet. We introduce a general method for finding these canonical initial slopes which is generalization of our earlier work.

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@article{arxiv.gr-qc/0701035,
  title  = {Canonical wave packets in quantum cosmology},
  author = {S. S. Gousheh and H. R. Sepangi and P. Pedram and M. Mirzaei},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/0701035},
  year   = {2008}
}

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19 pages, 8 figures