8 research outputs found
Electromagnetic and Gravitational Radiation of Graviatoms
Graviatom existence conditions have been found. The graviatoms (quantum
systems around mini-black-holes) satisfying these conditions contain the
following charged particles: the electron, muon, tau lepton, wino, pion and
kaon. Electric dipole and quadrupole and gravitational radiations are
calculated for the graviatoms and compared with Hawking's mini-hole radiation.Comment: 7 pages, 1 figure, 3 tables; accepted in "Astronomical and
Astrophysical Transactions
Wave functions for arbitrary operator ordering in the de Sitter minisuperspace approximation
We derive exact series solutions for the Wheeler-DeWitt equation
corresponding to a spatially closed Friedmann-Robertson-Walker universe with
cosmological constant for arbitrary operator ordering of the scale factor of
the universe. The resulting wave functions are those relevant to the
approximation which has been widely used in two-dimensional minisuperspace
models with an inflationary scalar field for the purpose of predicting the
period of inflation which results from competing boundary condition proposals
for the wave function of the universe. The problem that Vilenkin's tunneling
wave function is not normalizable for general operator orderings, is shown to
persist for other values of the spatial curvature, and when additional matter
degrees of freedom such as radiation are included.Comment: 12 pages, revTeX-3.
Dynamical Vacuum in Quantum Cosmology
By regarding the vacuum as a perfect fluid with equation of state p=-rho, de
Sitter's cosmological model is quantized. Our treatment differs from previous
ones in that it endows the vacuum with dynamical degrees of freedom. Instead of
being postulated from the start, the cosmological constant arises from the
degrees of freedom of the vacuum regarded as a dynamical entity, and a time
variable can be naturally introduced. Taking the scale factor as the sole
degree of freedom of the gravitational field, stationary and wave-packet
solutions to the Wheeler-DeWitt equation are found. It turns out that states of
the Universe with a definite value of the cosmological constant do not exist.
For the wave packets investigated, quantum effects are noticeable only for
small values of the scale factor, a classical regime being attained at
asymptotically large times.Comment: Latex, 19 pages, to appear in Gen. Rel. Gra