Simple model of big-crunch/big-bang transition
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
2014-11-17 v4 Astrophysics
High Energy Physics - Theory
Abstract
We present classical and quantum dynamics of a test particle in the compactified Milne space. Background spacetime includes one compact space dimension undergoing contraction to a point followed by expansion. Quantization consists in finding a self-adjoint representation of the algebra of particle observables. Our model offers some insight into the nature of the cosmic singularity.
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Cite
@article{arxiv.gr-qc/0507077,
title = {Simple model of big-crunch/big-bang transition},
author = {Przemyslaw Malkiewicz and Wlodzimierz Piechocki},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/0507077},
year = {2014}
}
Comments
17 pages, no figures, RevTeX4, accepted for publication in Class. Quantum Grav