Published August 2015 | Version v1
Journal article

Exact solutions of the Wheeler–DeWitt equation and the Yamabe construction

  • 1. Physics Department, US Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD (United States)
  • 2. Department of Physics, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan (China)

Description

Exact solutions of the Wheeler–DeWitt equation of the full theory of four dimensional gravity of Lorentzian signature are obtained. They are characterized by Schrödinger wavefunctionals having support on 3-metrics of constant spatial scalar curvature, and thus contain two full physical field degrees of freedom in accordance with the Yamabe construction. These solutions are moreover Gaussians of minimum uncertainty and they are naturally associated with a rigged Hilbert space. In addition, in the limit the regulator is removed, exact 3-dimensional diffeomorphism and local gauge invariance of the solutions are recovered

Availability note (English)

Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.aop.2015.04.016

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Identifiers

DOI
10.1016/j.aop.2015.04.016;
arXiv
arXiv:1408.0710v2;
PII
S0003-4916(15)00149-9;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Annals of Physics (New York)
Journal Volume
359
Journal Page Range
p. 80-96
ISSN
0003-4916
CODEN
APNYA6

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