Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Scientific paper
2007-05-11
Phys.Rev.D76:064032,2007
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
24 pages, 7 figures, figures improved, references added, conceptual clarifications included
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevD.76.064032
We investigate a cosmological model with a big-brake singularity in the future: while the first time derivative of the scale factor goes to zero, its second time derivative tends to minus infinity. Although we also discuss the classical version of the model in some detail, our main interest lies in its quantization. We formulate the Wheeler-DeWitt equation and derive solutions describing wave packets. We show that all such solutions vanish in the region of the classical singularity, a behaviour which we interpret as singularity avoidance. We then discuss the same situation in loop quantum cosmology. While this leads to a different factor ordering, the singularity is there avoided, too.
Kamenshchik Alexander
Kiefer Claus
Sandhoefer Barbara
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