English

Probing singularities in quantum cosmology with curvature scalars

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2014-11-18 v2

Abstract

We provide further evidence that the canonical quantization of cosmological models eliminates the classical Big Bang singularity, using the {\it DeBroglie-Bohm} interpretation of quantum mechanics. The usual criterion for absence of the Big Bang singularity in Friedmann-Robertson-Walker quantum cosmological models is the non-vanishing of the expectation value of the scale factor. We compute the `local expectation value' of the Ricci and Kretschmann scalars, for some quantum FRW models. We show that they are finite for all time. Since these scalars are elements of general scalar polynomials in the metric and the Riemann tensor, this result indicates that, for the quantum models treated here, the `local expectation value' of these general scalar polynomials should be finite everywhere. Therefore, we have further evidence that the quantization of the models treated here eliminates the classical Big Bang singularity. PACS: 04.40.Nr, 04.60.Ds, 98.80.Qc.

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@article{arxiv.0708.3852,
  title  = {Probing singularities in quantum cosmology with curvature scalars},
  author = {G. Oliveira Neto and E. V. Correa Silva and N. A. Lemos and G. A. Monerat},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0708.3852},
  year   = {2014}
}

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9 pages, 6 figures

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