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Dirac quantization of membrane in time dependent orbifold

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2014-11-20 v3 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We present quantum theory of a membrane propagating in the vicinity of a time dependent orbifold singularity. The dynamics of a membrane, with the parameters space topology of a torus, winding uniformly around compact dimension of the embedding spacetime is mathematically equivalent to the dynamics of a closed string in a flat FRW spacetime. The construction of the physical Hilbert space of a membrane makes use of the kernel space of self-adjoint constraint operators. It is a subspace of the representation space of the constraints algebra. There exist non-trivial quantum states of a membrane evolving across the singularity.

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@article{arxiv.0905.3900,
  title  = {Dirac quantization of membrane in time dependent orbifold},
  author = {Przemyslaw Malkiewicz and Wlodzimierz Piechocki},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0905.3900},
  year   = {2014}
}

Comments

16 pages, no figures, version accepted for publication in Journal of High Energy Physics

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