Published August 2015
| Version v1
Journal article
Exact solutions of the Wheeler–DeWitt equation and the Yamabe construction
Creators
- 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.2015.04.016Additional details
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
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United States
- Country of Input or Organization
- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
- INIS RN
- 47020738
- Subject category
- S71: CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS;
- Descriptors DEI
- DEGREES OF FREEDOM; EXACT SOLUTIONS; FOUR-DIMENSIONAL CALCULATIONS; GAUGE INVARIANCE; GRAVITATION; HILBERT SPACE; METRICS; QUANTIZATION; SCHROEDINGER EQUATION
- Descriptors DEC
- BANACH SPACE; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; EQUATIONS; INVARIANCE PRINCIPLES; MATHEMATICAL SOLUTIONS; MATHEMATICAL SPACE; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; SPACE; WAVE EQUATIONS
Optional Information
- Copyright
- Copyright (c) 2015 Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam, The Netherlands, All rights reserved.