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The quantum development of an asymptotically Euclidean Cauchy hypersurface

Mathematical Physics 2017-01-23 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Physics - Theory math.MP Quantum Physics

Abstract

In our model of quantum gravity the quantum development of a Cauchy hypersurface is governed by a wave equation derived as the result of a canonical quantization process. To find physically interesting solutions of the wave equation we employ the separation of variables by considering a temporal eigenvalue problem which has a complete countable set of eigenfunctions with positive eigenvalues and also a spatial eigenvalue problem which has a complete set of eigendistributions. Assuming that the Cauchy hypersurface is asymtotically Euclidean we prove that the temporal eigenvalues are also spatial eigenvalues and the product of corresponding eigenfunctions and eigendistributions, which will be smooth functions with polynomial growth, are the physically interesting solutions of the wave equation. We consider these solutions to describe the quantum development of the Cauchy hypersurface.

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@article{arxiv.1612.03469,
  title  = {The quantum development of an asymptotically Euclidean Cauchy hypersurface},
  author = {Claus Gerhardt},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1612.03469},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

18 pages, v2: Added a lemma, Lemma 2.4, and clarified a few points in Section 2