QUANTUM POTENTIAL APPROACH TO A CLASS OF QUANTUM COSMOLOGICAL MODELS

In this paper we discuss the quantum potential approach of Bohm in the context of a quantum cosmological model. This approach makes it possi ble to convert the wavefunction of the universe into a set of equation s describing the time evolution of the universe. Following Ashtekar et al we make use of a quantum canonical transformation to cast a class of a quantum cosmological models into a simple form in which they can be solved explicitly, and then we use the solutions to recover the tim e evolution.