SIGNATURE TRANSITIONS IN QUANTUM COSMOLOGY

Citation
T. Dereli et al., SIGNATURE TRANSITIONS IN QUANTUM COSMOLOGY, Classical and quantum gravity, 10(8), 1993, pp. 1425-1434
Citations number
19
Categorie Soggetti
Physics
ISSN journal
02649381
Volume
10
Issue
8
Year of publication
1993
Pages
1425 - 1434
Database
ISI
SICI code
0264-9381(1993)10:8<1425:STIQC>2.0.ZU;2-1
Abstract
We exhibit a family of Hilbert subspaces describing solutions to the W heeler-DeWitt equation. Each subspace describes a distinct quantum the ory in which the parameters of the potential are required to satisfy a particular 'quantization' condition. Tentative evidence suggests that within each Hilbert subspace there exist states that may be identifie d with non-dispersive wave packets peaking in the vicinity of submanif olds in superspace corresponding to classical cosmological eras. These submanifolds admit parametrizations corresponding to metric solutions of Einstein's equations that admit a transition between a Euclidean a rid a Lorentzian signature.