The Semiclassical Wheeler-Dewitt equation: Solutions for long wavelength fields

Feb, 1993
14 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Rev.D 48 (1993) 719-727
Report number:
  • DAMTP-R-93-3

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Abstract: (APS)
In the long-wavelength approximation, a general set of semiclassical wave functionals is given for gravity and matter interacting in 3+1 dimensions. In the long-wavelength theory, one neglects second-order spatial gradients in the energy constraint. These solutions satisfy the Hamilton-Jacobi equation, the momentum constraint, and the equation of continuity. It is essential to introduce inhomogeneities to discuss the role of time. The time hypersurface is chosen to be a homogeneous field in the wave functional. It is shown how to introduce tracer particles through a dust field χ into the dynamical system. The formalism can be used to describe stochastic inflation.
  • quantum gravity
  • coupling: matter
  • matter: coupling
  • Wheeler-DeWitt equation: solution
  • approximation: semiclassical
  • constraint
  • numerical calculations
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