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Functional Change of Variables in the Wheeler--De Witt Equation

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

I present a new way to solve the Wheeler--de Witt equation using the invariance of the classical lagrangian under reparametrization. This property allows one to introduce an arbitrary function for each degree of freedom of the wave function Ψ\Psi: this arbitrariness can be used to fix the asymptotic behaviour of Ψ\Psi so as to obtain a wave function representing a closed universe or a wormhole. These considerations are applied in detail to the Kantowsky--Sachs spacetime.

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@article{arxiv.gr-qc/9304045,
  title  = {Functional Change of Variables in the Wheeler--De Witt Equation},
  author = {Marco Cavaglià},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/9304045},
  year   = {2007}
}

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11 pages, no figures. Plain tex