Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Scientific paper
1994-08-18
Int.J.Mod.Phys. D3 (1994) 549-568
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
22, IMAFF-RC-09-94#
Scientific paper
10.1142/S0218271894000708
This paper studies the time-symmetry problem in quantum gravity. The issue depends critically on the choice of the quantum state and has been considered in this paper by restricting to the case of quantum wormholes. It is seen that pure states represented by a wave functional are time symmetric. However, a maximal analytic extension of the wormhole manifold is found that corresponds to a mixed state describable by a nondegenerate density-matrix functional that involves an extra quantum uncertainty for the three-metric, and is free from the divergences encountered so far in statistical states formulated in quantum gravity. It is then argued that, relative to one asymptotic region, the statistical quantum state of single Euclidean wormholes in semiclassical approximation is time-asymmetric and gives rise to a {\it topological} arrow of time which will reflect in the set of all quantum fields at low energies of the asymptotic flat region (To appear in Int. J. Mod. Phys. D)
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