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We demonstrate in the context of the minisuperspace model consisting of a closed Friedmann-Robertson-Walker universe coupled to a scalar field that Vilenkin's tunneling wavefunction can only be consistently defined for particular choices of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 N. Kontoleon , D. L. Wiltshire

In this paper, the Wheeler-DeWitt (WDW) equation is derived in null-foliated 4D spacetimes. WDW equation written in null-foliated spacetime presents an enormous simplification compared to the spacelike-foliated spacetime as the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-05-04 Abhishek Mehta

We investigate aspects of quantum cosmology in relation to string cosmology systems that are described in terms of the Dirac-Born-Infeld action. Using the Silverstein-Tong model, we analyze the Wheeler-DeWitt equation for the rolling scalar…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 Anastasios Psinas

We consider a minisuperspace model for a closed universe with small and positive cosmological constant, filled with a massive scalar field conformally coupled to gravity. In the quantum version of this model, the universe may undergo a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 D. Levkov , C. Rebbi , V. A. Rubakov

We study wormhole as the solution of the Wheeler-deWitt (WdW ) equation satisfying Hawking-Page wormhole boundary conditions in Friedmann-Robertson-Walker (FRW) cosmology. The quantum wormholes are formulated with arbitrary factor ordering…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-18 Farook Rahaman , Bikramarka S. Choudhury , Anikul Islam

We present a discrete form of the Wheeler-DeWitt equation for quantum gravitation, based on the lattice formulation due to Regge. In this setup the infinite-dimensional manifold of 3-geometries is replaced by a space of three-dimensional…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-01-07 Herbert W. Hamber , Ruth M. Williams

The Wheeler-DeWitt equation arising from a Kantowski-Sachs model is considered for a Schwarzschild black hole under the assumption that the scale factors and the associated momenta satisfy a noncanonical noncommutative extension of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-02-23 Catarina Bastos , Orfeu Bertolami , Nuno Costa Dias , João Nuno Prata

The paper addresses the quantization of minisuperspace cosmological models by studying a possible solution to the problem of time and time asymmetries in quantum cosmology. Since General Relativity does not have a privileged time variable…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 Mario Castagnino , Gabriel Catren , Rafael Ferraro

One of the unsolved issues in the quantum gravity comes from the Wheeler-DeWitt equation, which is second order functional derivative equation. In this paper, we introduce a new method to solve the Wheeler-DeWitt equation. Usually one…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-27 Shintaro Sawayama

We study the classical and quantum cosmology of a $(4+d)$-dimensional spacetime minimally coupled to a scalar field and present exact solutions for the resulting field equations for the case where the universe is spatially flat. These…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 S. Jalalzadeh , F. Ahmadi , H. R. Sepangi

We study the effects of an information-theoretically motivated nonlinear correction to the Wheeler-deWitt equation in the minisuperspace scheme for flat, $k=0$, Friedmann-Robertson-Walker (FRW) universes. When the only matter is a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-18 Le-Huy Nguyen , Rajesh R. Parwani

We employ Riesz's fractional derivative into the Wheeler--DeWitt equation for a closed de Sitter geometry and obtain the no-boundary and tunneling wavefunctions. From the corresponding probability distributions, the event horizon of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-07-05 S. Jalalzadeh , E. W. Oliveira Costa , P. V. Moniz

One of the interesting open problems in the cosmological framework is applying quantum physics to the whole universe, consistently. Although different conceptual aspects of quantum cosmology are still very much alive, till now, all the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-06-22 S. H. Hendi , N. Riazi , S. N. Sajadi

(abbreviated) We study quantized solutions of WdW equation describing a closed FRW universe with a $\Lambda $ term and a set of massless scalar fields. We show that when $\Lambda \ll 1$ in the natural units and the standard $in$-vacuum…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-09-23 P. Ivanov , S. V. Chernov

We consider two-dimensional quantum gravity endowed with a positive cosmological constant and coupled to a conformal field theory of large and positive central charge. We study cosmological properties at the classical and quantum level. We…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-03-05 Dionysios Anninos , Chiara Baracco , Beatrix Mühlmann

In the background of homogeneous and isotropic flat FLRW space-time, both classical and quantum cosmology has been studied for teleparallel dark energy (DE) model. Using Noether symmetry analysis, not only the symmetry vector but also the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-07-12 Dipankar Laya , Roshni Bhaumik , Sourav Dutta , Subenoy Chakraborty

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

In quantum cosmology, one has to select a specific wave function solution of the quantum state equations under consideration in order to obtain concrete results. The simplest choices have been already explored, in different frameworks,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-09-06 P. C. M. Delgado , N. Pinto-Neto

The Wheeler-DeWitt equation is investigated and used to examine a state after a quantum tunneling with gravity. To make arguments definite we treat a discretized version of the Wheeler-DeWitt equation and adopt the WKB method. We expand an…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-09-09 Shinji Mukohyama

We investigate the Wheeler-DeWitt equation for a flat, homogeneous, and isotropic Universe containing a canonical scalar field with a potential. We show that under the constraint $|\Psi|=1$, where the Wheeler-DeWitt equation exactly becomes…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-30 Naoto Maki , Chia-Min Lin , Kazunori Kohri