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This paper discusses the problem of inflation in the context of Friedmann-Robertson-Walker Cosmology. We show how, after a simple change of variables, to quantize the problem in a way which parallels the classical discussion. The result is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Marvin Weinstein , Ratindranath Akhoury

The Wheeler-DeWitt equation is solved for some scalar-tensor theories of gravitation in the case of homogeneous and isotropic cosmological models.We present general solutions corresponding to cosmological term: (i)\lambda(\phi)=0$ and $(ii)…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Luis O. Pimentel , César Mora

In the minisuperspace models of quantum cosmology, the absence of time in the Wheeler-DeWitt (constraint) equation, is the main point leading to the generally accepted conclusion that in the quantum cosmology there is no possibility to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 E. I. Guendelman , A. B. Kaganovich

We solve the Wheeler DeWitt equation for the Taub models in closed form when both a cosmological constant and an electromagnetic field are present. In doing so, we examine the 'excited states' of the quantum Taub models with the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-11-10 Daniel Berkowitz

This paper uses the relation of the cosmic scale factor and scalar field to solve Wheeler-DeWitt equation, gives the tunnel effect of the cosmic scale factor a and quantum potential well of scalar field, and makes it fit with the physics of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-18 Yong-Chang Huang , Gang Weng

One presents a phase-space noncommutative extension of Quantum Cosmology in the context of a Kantowski-Sachs (KS) minisuperspace model. We obtain the Wheeler-DeWitt (WDW) equation for the noncommutative system through the ADM formalism and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-07-24 C. Bastos , O. Bertolami , N. Dias , J. Prata

In this paper we analyze the third quantization of Horava-Lifshits theory of gravity without detail balance. We show that the Wheeler-DeWitt equation for Horava-Lifshits theory of gravity in minisuperspace approximation becomes the equation…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-03 Mir Faizal

Particle production processes in the expanding universe are described within a simple kinetic model. The equilibrium conditions for a Maxwell-Boltzmann gas with variable particle number are investigated. We find that radiation and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-28 Winfried Zimdahl , Josep Triginer , Diego Pavon

The production of gravitational vacuum defects and their contribution in energy density of the Universe are discussed. These topological microstructures could be produced as the result of defect creation of the Universe from "nothing" as…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Vladimir Burdyuzha , J. A. de Freitas Pacheco , Grigory Vereshkov

Making cosmological predictions in a multiverse is a fundamental theoretical challenge. Assuming that (quasi-)de Sitter vacua are quantum mechanically described by a finite-dimensional Hilbert space, we develop a detailed framework for…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-01 Bjoern Hassfeld , Arthur Hebecker , Alexander Westphal

Since the advent of inflation, several theorems have been proven suggesting that although inflation can (and generically does) continue eternally into the future, it cannot be extended eternally into the past to create a ``steady-state''…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Anthony Aguirre , Steven Gratton

The tunneling Hamiltonian has proven to be a useful method in many body physics to treat particle tunneling between different states represented as wavefunctions. Here, we apply a generalization of the way we formed appropriate wave…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. W. Beckwith

We propose that the Universe was created from "Nothing" with a relatively small particles number and it very quick relaxed to quasiequilibrium state at the Planck parameters. The classic cosmological solution for this Universe, with the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 V. Burdyuzha , Yu. Ponomarev , O. Lalaculich , G. Vereshkov

We obtain solutions of the Wheeler-DeWitt equation with positive cosmological constant for a closed universe in the large-volume limit. We argue that this space of solutions provides a complete basis for the Hilbert space of quantum gravity…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-08-15 Tuneer Chakraborty , Joydeep Chakravarty , Victor Godet , Priyadarshi Paul , Suvrat Raju

The paper is devoted to some of the difficulties which the Wheeler - DeWitt quantum geometrodynamics encountered, in particular, a strong mathematical proof that this theory is gauge-invariant, the definition of the wave function of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-12-20 T. P. Shestakova

The development of last years in quantum geometrodynamics highlights new problems which were not obvious in its first formulation proposed by Wheeler and DeWitt. At the first stage the main task was to apply known quantization schemes to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-03-24 T. P. Shestakova

We find a class of solutions for a homogeneous and isotropic universe in which the initially expanding universe stops expanding, experiences contraction, and then expands again (the "bounce"), in the framework of Einstein gravity with a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-06-26 Hiroki Matsui , Fuminobu Takahashi , Takahiro Terada

Quantum cosmology of the Friedmann-Lema\^{i}tre-Robertson-Walker model with cosmological constant in the Ho$\check{\rm r}$ava-Lifshitz type gravity is studied in the phase space by means of the Wigner function. The modification of the usual…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-11-05 Ruben Cordero , Hugo Garcia-Compean , Francisco J. Turrubiates

We can solve the Wheeler-DeWitt equation of the small universe enough to metric becomes diagonal and take a Gaussian normal coordinate. Our previous works are concerning to this paper. In this paper, we only write how to solve the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-04-24 Shintaro Sawayama

We present analytic solutions to a class of cosmological models described by a canonical scalar field minimally coupled to gravity and experiencing self interactions through a hyperbolic potential. Using models and methods inspired by…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-03-19 Itzhak Bars , Shih-Hung Chen , Neil Turok