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A spinor model for quantum cosmology

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<mark>Journal publication date</mark>31/03/1994
<mark>Journal</mark>Physics Letters B
Issue number2
Volume324
Number of pages7
Pages (from-to)134-140
Publication StatusPublished
<mark>Original language</mark>English

Abstract

The question of the interpretation of Wheeler-DeWitt solutions in the context of cosmological models is addressed by implementing the Hamiltonian constraint as a spinor wave equation in minisuperspace. We offer a relative probability interpretation based on a non-closed vector current in this space and a prescription for a parametrisation of classical solutions in terms of classical time. Such a prescription can accommodate classically degenerate metrics describing manifolds with signature change. The relative probability density, defined in terms of a Killing vector of the DeWitt metric on minisuperspace, should permit one to identify classical loci corresponding to geometries for a classical manifold. This interpretation is illustrated in the context of a quantum cosmology model for two-dimensional dilaton gravity.