Abstract:
The dynamics of a spatially closed universe is studied in gravitation theory by means of the eigenfunctions and eigenvalues of the 3D projection of the Dirac operator. In a gauge that we call the Ashtekar gauge and construct by using an eigenfunction of this operator, the 3D volume of a spatial section is a canonical parameter, and the energy is a positive-definite functional of the dynamical variables (on the region of the phase space in which ˙V>0) proportional to the corresponding eigenvalue. There is a discrete set of frames of reference distinguished in this manner.
Citation:
N. N. Gorobey, A. S. Lukyanenko, “Three-dimensional volume of a closed universe as a canonical time parameter”, TMF, 95:3 (1993), 541–548; Theoret. and Math. Phys., 95:3 (1993), 766–770
This publication is cited in the following 2 articles:
A. E. Pavlov, “Intrinsic time in Wheeler–DeWitt conformal superspace”, Gravit. Cosmol., 23:3 (2017), 208
N. N. Gorobey, A. S. Lukyanenko, “Operator representation of gravitational constraints for the case of the closed universe”, Theoret. and Math. Phys., 105:3 (1995), 1603–1606