Is spacetime absolutely or just most probably Lorentzian?
Abstract
Pre-gauging the cosmological scale factor does not introduce unphysical degrees of freedom into the exact FLRW classical solution. It seems to lead, however, to a non-dynamical mini superspace. The missing ingredient, a generalised momentum enjoying canonical Dirac (rather than Poisson) brackets with the lapse function , calls for measure scaling which can be realised by means of a scalar field. The latter is essential for establishing a geometrical connection with the 5-dimensional Kaluza-Klein Schwarzschild-deSitter black hole. Contrary to the Hartle-Hawking approach, (i) The -independent wave function is traded for an explicit -dependent , (ii) The classical FLRW configuration does play a major role in the structure of the 'most classical' cosmological wave packet, and (iii) The non-singular Euclid/Lorentz crossovers get quantum mechanically smeared.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1509.00911,
title = {Is spacetime absolutely or just most probably Lorentzian?},
author = {Aharon Davidson and Ben Yellin},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1509.00911},
year = {2016}
}
Comments
6 two column pages, 2 figures