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Probing Quantum General Relativity Through Exactly Soluble Midi-Superspaces II: Polarized Gowdy Models

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2009-11-07 v1

Abstract

Canonical quantization of the polarized Gowdy midi-superspace with a 3-torus spatial topology is carried out. As in an earlier work on the Einstein-Rosen cylindrical waves, symmetry reduction is used to cast the original problem in 4-dimensional space-times to a 3-dimensional setting. To our knowledge, this is the first complete, systematic treatment of the Gowdy model in the geometrodynamical setting.

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@article{arxiv.gr-qc/0101013,
  title  = {Probing Quantum General Relativity Through Exactly Soluble Midi-Superspaces II: Polarized Gowdy Models},
  author = {M. Pierri},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/0101013},
  year   = {2009}
}

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20 pages, latex

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