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Unitarity in quantum cosmology: symmetries protected and violated

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2021-02-19 v2

Abstract

This work deals with the violation or retention of symmetries associated with the self-adjoint extension of the Hamiltonian for homogeneous but anisotropic Bianchi I cosmological model. This extension is required to make sure the quantum evolution is unitary. It is found that the scale invariance is lost, but the Noether symmetries are preserved.

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@article{arxiv.1911.11839,
  title  = {Unitarity in quantum cosmology: symmetries protected and violated},
  author = {Sachin Pandey and Narayan Banerjee},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1911.11839},
  year   = {2021}
}

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4 pages