Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Scientific paper
2003-02-10
Phys.Rev.D67:063517,2003
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
14 pages, latex
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevD.67.063517
The emergence of time in the matter-gravity system is addressed within the context of the inflationary paradigm. A quantum minisuperspace-homogeneous minimally coupled inflaton system is studied with suitable initial conditions leading to inflation and the system is approximately solved in the limit for large scale factor. Subsequently normal matter (either non homogeneous inflaton modes or lighter matter) is introduced as a perturbation and it is seen that its presence requires the coarse averaging of a gravitational wave function (which oscillates at trans-Planckian frequencies) having suitable initial conditions. Such a wave function, which is common for all types of normal matter, is associated with a ``time density'' in the sense that its modulus is related to the amount of time spent in a given interval (or the rate of flow of time). One is then finally led to an effective evolution equation (Schroedinger Schwinger-Tomonaga) for ``normal'' matter. An analogy with the emergence of a temperature in statistical mechanics is also pointed out.
Tronconi Alessandro
Vacca Gian Paolo
Venturi Giovanni
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