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Relations between the Friedmann observables of the expanding Universe and the Dirac observables in the generalized Hamiltonian approach are established for the Friedmann cosmological model of the Universe with the field excitations…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 S. A. Gogilidze , A. M. Khvedelidze , V. V. Papoyan , Yu. G. Palii , V. N. Pervushin

In the analysis of the Wheeler-DeWitt equation, we have simplified the Hamiltonian constraint of the Wheeler-DeWitt equation using the coordinate transformation. The coordinate is choose such that metric becomes diagonal and as Gaussian…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-06-25 Shintaro Sawayama

We present a systematic expansion of all constraint equations in canonical quantum gravity up to the order of the inverse Planck mass squared. It is demonstrated that this method generates the conventional Feynman diagrammatic technique…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-30 A. O. Barvinsky , C. Kiefer

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

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

Taking into account the global one-dimensionality conjecture recently proposed by the author, the Cauchy-like analytical wave functional of the Wheeler-DeWitt theory is derived. The crucial point of the integration strategy is canceling of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-06-11 Lukasz Andrzej Glinka

An approach to quantization of fields and gravity based on the De Donder-Weyl covariant Hamiltonian formalism is outlined. It leads to a hypercomplex extension of quantum mechanics in which the algebra of complex numbers is replaced by the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 I. V. Kanatchikov

We show that the covariant analytic mechanics (CAM) is closely related to the De Donder-Weyl (DW) theory. To treat space and time on an equal footing, the DW theory introduces $D$ conjugate fields ($D$ is the dimension of space-time) for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-06-02 Satoshi Nakajima

Our attempts to find an explanation for quantum behavior of the Early Universe appeal, as a rule, to the Wheeler - DeWitt Quantum Geometrodynamics which relies upon Hamiltonian formulation of General Relativity proposed by Arnowitt, Deser…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-02-21 T. P. Shestakova

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

The Weyl-Wigner-Moyal formalism for Dirac second class constrained systems has been proposed recently as the deformation quantization of Dirac bracket. In this paper, after a brief review of this formalism, it is applied to the case of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Laura Sanchez , Imelda Galaviz , Hugo Garcia-Compean

The Wheeler-DeWitt equation in quantum gravity is timeless in character. In order to discuss quantum to classical transition of the universe, one uses a time prescription in quantum gravity to obtain a time contained description starting…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 S. Biswas , A. Shaw , B. Modak

The classical and quantum dynamics of the Friedmann-Robertson-Walker Universe with massless scalar and massive fermion matter field as a source is discussed in the framework of the Dirac generalized Hamiltonian formalism. The Hamiltonian…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 A. M. Khvedelidze , Yu. G. Palii

In this paper, we present a detailed review/analysis of the Dirac quantisation of Hamiltonian systems with constraints. To this end, we use, as a guide, the physical example provided by the dynamics of a solid ball rolling, without…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-29 M. F. Araujo de Resende , Thales Machado F

Solutions to a scalar-tensor (dilaton) quantum gravity theory, interacting with quantized matter, are described. Dirac quantization is frustrated by quantal anomalies in the constraint algebra. Progress is made only after the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-28 Roman Jackiw

We present a theoretical analysis of the WDW approach to quantum cosmology extended to gravity theories with torsion. The dynamics of the FLRW universe is formulated as a classical Hamiltonian problem of point particle mechanics. Unlike in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-17 David Vasak , Johannes Kirsch , Juergen Struckmeier

We study ambiguities in the precise formulation of the Wheeler-DeWitt equation for the wavefunction of the Universe that arise due to different operator orderings in the quantum Hamiltonian. We first examine the simpler case of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-08-13 Eftychios Kaimakkamis , Karunava Sil

We study the quantum cosmology of a quadratic $f(R)$ theory with a FRW metric, via one of its equivalent Horndeski type actions, where the dynamics of the scalar field is induced. The classical equations of motion and the Weeler-deWitt…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-06-22 V. Vázquez-Báez , C. Ramírez

We consider the gravity interacting with matter scalar fields and quantized in the minisuperspace approach in which the wave functional is described by the Wheeler-DeWitt equations (WdW). Assuming the domination of the homogeneous and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-04-08 Alexander A. Andrianov , Oleg O. Novikov , Chen Lan

Dirac algorithm allows to construct Hamiltonian systems for singular systems, and so contributing to its successful quantization. A drawback of this method is that the resulting quantized theory does not have manifest Lorentz invariance.…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-09-17 Hernán Cendra , Santiago Capriotti