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Towards a quantum Oppenheimer-Snyder model

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2020-01-28 v2 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We present a consistent canonical formulation of the flat Oppenheimer-Snyder model, including the Schwarzschild exterior. The switching between comoving and stationary observer is realized by promoting the coordinate transformation between dust proper time and Schwarzschild-Killing time to a canonical one. This leads to two different forms of the Hamiltonian constraint, both (almost) deparameterizable with regard to one of these times. A preliminary quantization of these constraints reveals a consistent picture for both observers: the singularity is avoided by a bounce.

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@article{arxiv.1912.08175,
  title  = {Towards a quantum Oppenheimer-Snyder model},
  author = {Tim Schmitz},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1912.08175},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

10 pages, 5 figures, reference added

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