Hybrid Quantization: From Bianchi I to the Gowdy Model

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2010-06-11

arxiv.org/abs/1006.2369v2

Phys.Rev.D82:084012,2010

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

20 pages, version accepted for publication in Physical Review D

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The Gowdy cosmologies are vacuum solutions to the Einstein equations which possess two space-like Killing vectors and whose spatial sections are compact. We consider the simplest of these cosmological models: the case where the spatial topology is that of a three-torus and the gravitational waves are linearly polarized. The subset of homogeneous solutions to this Gowdy model are vacuum Bianchi I spacetimes with a three-torus topology. We deepen the analysis of the loop quantization of these Bianchi I universes adopting the improved dynamics scheme put forward recently by Ashtekar and Wilson-Ewing. Then, we revisit the hybrid quantization of the Gowdy $T^3$ cosmologies by combining this loop quantum cosmology description with a Fock quantization of the inhomogeneities over the homogeneous Bianchi I background. We show that, in vacuo, the Hamiltonian constraint of both the Bianchi I and the Gowdy models can be regarded as an evolution equation with respect to the volume of the Bianchi I universe. This evolution variable turns out to be discrete, with a strictly positive minimum. Furthermore, we argue that this evolution is well-defined inasmuch as the associated initial value problem is well posed: physical solutions are completely determined by the data on an initial section of constant Bianchi I volume. This fact allows us to carry out to completion the quantization of these two cosmological models.

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