Quantum cosmological Friedman models with an initial singularity
Abstract
We consider the Wheeler-DeWitt equation in a suitable Hilbert space. It turns out that this equation has countably many solutions which can be considered as eigenfunctions of a Hamilton operator implicitly defined by . We consider two models, a bounded one, , and an unbounded, , which represent different eigenvalue problems. In the bounded model we look for eigenvalues , where the are the values of the cosmological constant which we used in the Einstein-Hilbert functional, and in the unbounded model the eigenvalues are given by , where . The form a basis of the underlying Hilbert space. All solutions have an initial singularity in . Under certain circumstances a smooth transition from big crunch to big bang is possible.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0806.1769,
title = {Quantum cosmological Friedman models with an initial singularity},
author = {Claus Gerhardt},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0806.1769},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
35 pages, v7: Introduction rewritten and and a comparison with the classical solutions added. This will be the published version