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PHYSICAL REVIEW D
卷 102, 期 4, 页码 -出版社
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.102.044034
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- STFC [ST/L00044X/1]
- STFC [ST/P000762/1] Funding Source: UKRI
We show that the Chern-Simons (CS) state when reduced to minisuperspace is the Fourier dual of the Hartle-Hawking (HH) and Vilenkin (V) wave functions of the Universe. This is to be expected, given that the former and latter solve the same constraint equation, written in terms of conjugate variables (loosely, the expansion factor and the Hubble parameter). A number of subtleties in the mapping, related to the contour of integration of the connection, shed light on the issue of boundary conditions in quantum cosmology. If we insist on a real Hubble parameter, then only the HH wave function can be represented by the CS state, with the Hubble parameter covering the whole real line. For the V (or tunneling) wave function, the Hubble parameter is restricted to the positive real line (which makes sense, since the state only admits outgoing waves), but the contour also covers the whole negative imaginary axis. Hence, the state is not admissible if reality conditions are imposed upon the connection. Modifications of the V state, requiring the addition of source terms to the Hamiltonian constraint, are examined and found to be more palatable. In the dual picture, the HH state predicts a uniform distribution for the Hubble parameter over the whole real line; the modified V state a uniform distribution over the positive real line.
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