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Phys. Rev. D 42, 482–487 (1990)

Notion of time and the semiclassical regime of quantum gravity

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Mario A. Castagnino and Francisco D. Mazzitelli
Instituto de Astronomía y Física del Espacio, Casilla de Correo 67, Sucursal 28, 1428 Buenos Aires, Argentina
Departamento de Física, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Ciudad Universitaria, Pab 1, 1428 Buenos Aires, Argentina

Received 23 October 1989; published in the issue dated 15 July 1990

Using the notion of probabilistic time introduced in a previous work, we analyze the perturbed minisuperspace models of quantum gravity. For Robertson-Walker minisuperspace we show that it is possible to derive the so-called self-consistent cosmology in the semiclassical regime. The generalization to models with several semiclassical variables is also discussed.

© 1990 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevD.42.482
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevD.42.482
PACS:
04.60.+n