Published February 15, 1989
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Journal article
Quantum field theory of the Universe
Creators
- 1. Research Institute for Theoretical Physics, Hiroshima University, Takehara, Hiroshima 725, Japan
Description
As is well known, the wave function of the Universe dictated by the Wheeler-DeWitt equation has a difficulty in its probabilistic interpretation. In order to overcome this difficulty, we explore a theoretical possibility of the second quantization of the Universe, following the same passage historically taken for the Klein-Gordon particles and the Nambu-Goto strings. It turns out that multiple production of universes is an inevitable consequence even if the initial state is nothing. The problematical interpretation of the wave function of the Universe is circumvented by introducing an internal comoving model detector, which is an analogue of the DeWitt-Unruh detector in quantum field theory in curved space-time
Additional details
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Physical Review, D
- Journal Volume
- 39
- Journal Issue
- 4
- Series
- Phys. Rev., D.
- Journal Page Range
- 1123-1129
- ISSN
- 0556-2821
- CODEN
- PRVDA
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United States
- Country of Input or Organization
- United States
- INIS RN
- 20031755
- Subject category
- S79: ASTROPHYSICS, COSMOLOGY AND ASTRONOMY; S71: CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS;
- Descriptors DEI
- COSMOLOGY; KLEIN-GORDON EQUATION; METRICS; QUANTIZATION; QUANTUM FIELD THEORY; QUANTUM MECHANICS; SCALAR FIELDS; SPACE-TIME; UNIVERSE; WAVE FUNCTIONS
- Descriptors DEC
- DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; EQUATIONS; FIELD EQUATIONS; FIELD THEORIES; FUNCTIONS; MECHANICS; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; WAVE EQUATIONS