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We investigate three aspects of the supposed problem of time: The disagreement between the treatments of time in general relativity and quantum theory, the problem of recovering time from within an isolated Universe and the prevalence of a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-11-27 K. L. H. Bryan , A. J. M. Medved

We revisit the issue of time in quantum geometrodynamics and suggest a quantization procedure on the space of true dynamic variables. This procedure separates the issue of quantization from enforcing the constraints caused by the general…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-12-21 Warner A. Miller , Arkady Kheyfets

Perfect fluid Friedmann-Robertson-Walker quantum cosmological models for an arbitrary barotropic equation of state $p = \alpha\rho$ are constructed using Schutz's variational formalism. In this approach the notion of time can be recovered.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-10-20 F. G. Alvarenga , J. C. Fabris , N. A. Lemos , G. A. Monerat

In the present work, we discuss the Wheeler-DeWitt quantization scheme for an n-dimensional anisotropic cosmological model with a perfect fluid in presence of a massless scalar field. We identify the time parameter using the generalization…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-06-26 Sachin Pandey

The problem of time is a deep paradox in our physical description of the world. According to Aristotle's relational theory, time is a measure of change and does not exist on its own. In contrast, quantum mechanics, just like Newtonian…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-01-23 Dries Sels , Michiel Wouters

In the present work, we study the noncommutative version of a quantum cosmology model. The model has a Friedmann-Robertson-Walker geometry, the matter content is a radiative perfect fluid and the spatial sections have positive constant…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-05-05 G. Oliveira-Neto , G. A. Monerat , E. V. Corrêa Silva , C. Neves , L. G. Ferreira Filho

A quantum mechanical theory is proposed which abandons an external parameter ``time'' in favor of a self-adjoint operator on a Hilbert space whose elements represent measurement events rather than system states. The standard quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-09-29 Kim Bostroem

In this work we propose the quantization of a cosmological model describing the primordial universe filled with five barotropic fluids, namely: radiation, dust, vacuum, cosmic strings and domain walls. We intend to identify which fluid is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-12-04 G. A. Monerat , C. G. M. Santos , F. G. Alvarenga , S. V. B. Gonçalves , R. Fracalossi , E. V. Corrêa Silva , G. Oliveira-Neto

We discuss the problem of time in spherically symmetric pure Einstein gravity with the cosmological term by using an exact solution to the Wheeler-DeWitt equation. A positive definite inner product is defined, based on the momentum…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-11-19 Takayuki Hori

The problem of the time is one of the open issues in the quantum gravity. This problem is particular problem in the canonical quantum gravity. Even in the loop gravity the problem of the time remain. Our work is concerning to the problem of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-02-11 Shintaro Sawayama

We propose a solution to the problem of time for systems with a single global Hamiltonian constraint. Our solution stems from the observation that, for these theories, conventional gauge theory methods fail to capture the full classical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-30 Sean Gryb , Karim Thebault

Selection of physically meaningful solutions of the Wheeler-DeWitt equation for the wavefunction in quantum cosmology, can be attained by a reduction of the theory to the sector of true physical degrees of freedom and their canonical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-05-06 A. O. Barvinsky , A. Yu. Kamenshchik

The standard Wheeler-DeWitt approach to Quantum Cosmology leads to the problematic freeze of time. The reason is the enforcement of time re-parametrization invariance via the lapse function that is treated at least partially as an…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-03 David Vasak

We study perfect fluid Stephani quantum cosmological model. In the present work the Schutz's variational formalism which recovers the notion of time is applied. This gives rise to Wheeler-DeWitt equation for the scale factor. We use the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 P. Pedram , S. Jalalzadeh , S. S. Gousheh

A cosmological model with two global internal times shows that time reparameterization invariance, and therefore covariance, is not guaranteed by deparameterization. In particular, it is impossible to derive proper-time effective equations…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-09-13 Martin Bojowald , Theodore Halnon

The "problem of time" in canonical quantum gravity refers to the difficulties involved in defining a Hilbert space structure on states -- and local observables on this Hilbert space -- for a theory in which the spacetime metric is treated…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-12-30 Robert M. Wald

In this paper we discuss classical and quantum aspects of cosmological models in Brans-Dicke theory. First, we review cosmological bounce solution in Brans-Dicke theory that obeys energy conditions (without ghost) for a universe filled with…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-08-09 Carla R. Almeida , O. Galkina , J. C. Fabris

Quantum cosmology has traditionally been studied at the level of symmetry-reduced minisuperspace models, analyzing the behavior of wave functions. However, in the absence of a complete full setting of quantum gravity and detailed knowledge…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-09-18 Martin Bojowald

This article contains a local solution to the notorious Problem of Time in Quantum Gravity at the conceptual level and which is actually realizable for the relational triangle. The Problem of Time is that `time' in GR and `time' in ordinary…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-03-19 Edward Anderson

Three of the big puzzles of theoretical physics are the following: (i) There is apparently no time evolution in the dynamics of quantum general relativity, because the allowed quantum states must obey the Hamiltonian constraint. (ii) During…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-12-29 Shreya Banerjee , Sayantani Bera , Tejinder P. Singh