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Unitary evolution for a quantum Kantowski-Sachs cosmology

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2015-10-07 v1 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

It is shown that like Bianchi I, V and IX models, a Kantowski-Sachs cosmological model also allows a unitary evolution on quantization. It has also been shown that this unitarity is not at the expense of the anisotropy. Non-unitarity, if there is any, cannot escape notice in this as the evolution is studied against a properly oriented time parameter fixed by the evolution of the fluid. Furthermore, we have constructed a wave-packet by superposing different energy eigenstates, thereby establishing unitarity in a non-trivial way, which is a stronger result than an energy eigenstate trivially giving time independent probability density. For α1\alpha\neq1, we have proved that the Hamiltonian upon suitable operator ordering admits a self-adjoint extension under reasonable assumption, using a standard theorem. This consolidates the recently shown fact that the problem of non-unitarity cannot be a generic problem of anisotropy.

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@article{arxiv.1506.02770,
  title  = {Unitary evolution for a quantum Kantowski-Sachs cosmology},
  author = {Sridip Pal and Narayan Banerjee},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1506.02770},
  year   = {2015}
}

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12 pages, 4 figures

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