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Thesis (PH.D.)--SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY, 1992.Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 53-11, Section: B, page: 5763.
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General relativity has two features in particular, which make it difficult to apply to it existing schemes for the quantization of constrained systems. First, there is no background structure in the theory, which could be used, e.g., to regularize constraint operators, to identify a "time" or to define an inner product on physical states. Second, in the Ashtekar formulation of general relativity, which is a promising avenue to quantum gravity, the natural variables for quantization are not canonical; and, classically, there are algebraic identities between them. Existing schemes are usually not concerned with such identities. Thus, from the point of view of canonical quantum gravity, it has become imperative to find a framework for quantization which provides a general prescription to find the physical inner product, and is flexible enough to accommodate non -canonical variables. In this dissertation I present an algebraic formulation of the Dirac approach to the quantization of constrained systems. The Dirac quantization program is augmented by a general principle to find the inner product on physical states. Essentially, the Hermiticity conditions on physical operators determine this inner product. I also clarify the role in quantum theory of possible algebraic identities between the elementary variables. I use this approach to quantize various finite dimensional systems. Some of these models test the new aspects of the algebraic framework. Others bear qualitative similarities to general relativity, and may give some insight into the pitfalls lurking in quantum gravity. The previous quantizations of one such model had many surprising features. When this model is quantized using the algebraic program, there is no longer any unexpected behaviour. I also construct the complete quantum theory for a previously unsolved relativistic cosmology. All these models indicate that the algebraic formulation provides powerful new tools for quantization. In (spatially compact) general relativity, the Hamiltonian is constrained to vanish. I present various approaches one can take to obtain an interpretation of the quantum theory of such "dynamically constrained" systems. I apply some of these ideas to the Bianchi I cosmology, and analyze the issue of the initial singularity in quantum theory.
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