Uniqueness of the Fock quantization of the Gowdy $T^3$ model

Details Uniqueness of the Fock quantization of the Gowdy $T^3$ model Uniqueness of the Fock quantization of the Gowdy $T^3$ model

2007-02-21

arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0702117v1

Phys.Rev.D75:084027,2007

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

14 pages

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevD.75.084027

After its reduction by a gauge-fixing procedure, the family of linearly polarized Gowdy $T^3$ cosmologies admit a scalar field description whose evolution is governed by a Klein-Gordon type equation in a flat background in 1+1 dimensions with the spatial topology of $S^1$, though in the presence of a time-dependent potential. The model is still subject to a homogeneous constraint, which generates $S^1$-translations. Recently, a Fock quantization of this scalar field was introduced and shown to be unique under the requirements of unitarity of the dynamics and invariance under the gauge group of $S^1$-translations. In this work, we extend and complete this uniqueness result by considering other possible scalar field descriptions, resulting from reasonable field reparameterizations of the induced metric of the reduced model. In the reduced phase space, these alternate descriptions can be obtained by means of a time-dependent scaling of the field, the inverse scaling of its canonical momentum, and the possible addition of a time-dependent, linear contribution of the field to this momentum. Demanding again unitarity of the field dynamics and invariance under the gauge group, we prove that the alternate canonical pairs of fieldlike variables admit a Fock representation if and only if the scaling of the field is constant in time. In this case, there exists essentially a unique Fock representation, provided by the quantization constructed by Corichi, Cortez, and Mena Marugan. In particular, our analysis shows that the scalar field description proposed by Pierri does not admit a Fock quantization with the above unitarity and invariance properties.

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