Quantum Gowdy $T^3$ model: A uniqueness result

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2006-07-31

arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0607136v2

Class.Quant.Grav.23:6301-6320,2006

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

28 pages, minor changes, version accepted for publication in Classical and Quantum Gravity

Scientific paper

10.1088/0264-9381/23/22/014

Modulo a homogeneous degree of freedom and a global constraint, the linearly polarised Gowdy $T^3$ cosmologies are equivalent to a free scalar field propagating in a fixed nonstationary background. Recently, a new field parameterisation was proposed for the metric of the Gowdy spacetimes such that the associated scalar field evolves in a flat background in 1+1 dimensions with the spatial topology of $S^1$, although subject to a time dependent potential. Introducing a suitable Fock quantisation for this scalar field, a quantum theory was constructed for the Gowdy model in which the dynamics is implemented as a unitary transformation. A question that was left open is whether one might adopt a different, nonequivalent Fock representation by selecting a distinct complex structure. The present work proves that the chosen Fock quantisation is in fact unique (up to unitary equivalence) if one demands unitary implementation of the dynamics and invariance under the group of constant $S^1$ translations. These translations are precisely those generated by the global constraint that remains on the Gowdy model. It is also shown that the proof of uniqueness in the choice of complex structure can be applied to more general field dynamics than that corresponding to the Gowdy cosmologies.

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