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The cosmological scale factor $a(t)$ of the flat-space Robertson-Walker geometry is examined from a Hamiltonian perspective wherein $a(t)$ is interpreted as an independent dynamical coordinate and the curvature density $\sqrt {- g(a)}…

General Physics · Physics 2008-10-04 M. Ibison

Quantum geometrodynamics with intrinsic time development is presented. Paradigm shift from full space-time covariance to spatial diffeomorphism invariance yields a non-vanishing Hamiltonian, a resolution of the `problem of time', and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-12-16 Chopin Soo

The quantum description of time evolution in non-linear gravitational systems such as cosmological space-times is not well understood. We show, in the simplified setting of mini-superspace, that time evolution of this system can be obtained…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-05-02 Anne-Katherine Burns , David E. Kaplan , Tom Melia , Surjeet Rajendran

The nature of cosmic time is illuminated using Hamilton-Jacobi theory for general relativity. For problems of interest to cosmology, one may solve for the phase of the wavefunctional by using a line integral in superspace. Each contour of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 D. S. Salopek

The Hamiltonian of Intrinsic Time Gravity is elucidated. The theory describes Schrodinger evolution of our universe with respect to the fractional change of the total spatial volume. Gravitational interactions are introduced by extending…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-01-12 Eyo Eyo Ita , Chopin Soo , Hoi-Lai Yu

In this second paper we define a Post-Minkowskian (PM) weak field approximation leading to a linearization of the Hamilton equations of ADM tetrad gravity in the York canonical basis in a family of non-harmonic 3-orthogonal Schwinger time…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-03-13 David Alba , Luca Lusanna

Brown's formulation of dynamical perfect fluids in Minkowski space-time is extended to ADM tetrad gravity in globally hyperbolic, asymptotically Minkowskian space-times. For the dust we get the Hamiltonian description in closed form in the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-06-03 David Alba , Luca Lusanna

The paper is the first of two parts of a work reviewing some approaches to the problem of time in quantum cosmology, which were put forward last decade, and which demonstrated their relation to the problems of reparametrization and gauge…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 T. P. Shestakova , C. Simeone

Based on the assertion that the cosmological constant problem is essentially a quantum gravity problem, the framework which addresses the cosmological constant problem should also bear a picture for the ``quantum space-time''. In this talk…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-07 M. M. Sheikh-Jabbari

We briefly show how we can obtain Hamiltonians for spatially compact locally homogeneous vacuum spacetimes. The dynamical variables are categorized into the curvature parameters and the Teichm\"{u}ller parameters. While the Teichm\"{u}ller…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Masayuki Tanimoto , Tatsuhiko Koike , Akio Hosoya

Cosmological perturbations with wavelengths smaller than Hubble radius can be handled in the context of Newtonian theory with very high accuracy. The application of this Newtonian approximation, however, is restricted to nonrelativistic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Ali Nayeri , T. Padmanabhan

Identifying an appropriate set of ``observables'' is a nontrivial task for most approaches to quantum gravity. We describe how it may be accomplished in the context of a recently proposed family of stochastic (but classical) dynamical laws…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Graham Brightwell , H. Fay Dowker , Joe Henson , Raquel S. Garcia , Rafael D. Sorkin

We review the study of inhomogeneous perturbations about a homogeneous and isotropic background cosmology. We adopt a coordinate based approach, but give geometrical interpretations of metric perturbations in terms of the expansion, shear…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-23 Karim A. Malik , David Wands

In this paper we can solve a Wheeler-DeWitt equation of the some inhomogeneous spacetime models as a local solution. From the previous study of up-to-down method we derived the static restriction relating the problem of the time. Although…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Shintaro Sawayama

Hamilton-Jacobi theory provides a natural starting point for a covariant description of the gravitational field. Using a spatial gradient expansion, one may solve for the phase of the wavefunction by using a line-integral in superspace.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 D. S. Salopek

The covariant canonical transformation theory applied to the relativistic Hamiltonian theory of classical matter fields in dynamical space-time yields a novel (first order) gauge field theory of gravitation. The emerging field equations…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-11-29 David Vasak , Johannes Kirsch , Dirk Kehm , Juergen Struckmeier

The idea of this contribution is to suggest a way to get rid of gravity as a dynamical space time approximately in cosmology and thus be able to use Hamiltonian formulation ignoring the gravitational degrees of freedom, treating them just…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-03-08 Holger Bech Nielsen , Masao Ninomiya

The coupling of the metric to an incoherent dust introduces into spacetime a privileged dynamical reference frame and time foliation. The comoving coordinates of the dust particles and the proper time along the dust worldlines become…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-07-09 J. D. Brown , K. V. Kuchar

It is an intriguing question how local time can be introduced in the emergent picture of spacetime. In this paper, this problem is discussed in the context of tensor models. To consistently incorporate local time into tensor models, a rank-…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-03 Naoki Sasakura

We develop the Hamiltonian theory of axial perturbations around a general time-dependent spherical background spacetime. Using the fact that the linearized constraints are gauge generators, we isolate the physical and unconstrained axial…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-02-09 David Brizuela , Jose M. Martin-Garcia