Quantum field theory of the Universe

Akio Hosoya and Masahiro Morikawa
Phys. Rev. D 39, 1123 – Published 15 February 1989
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Abstract

As is well known, the wave function of the Universe dictated by the Wheeler-DeWitt equation has a difficulty in its probabilistic interpretation. In order to overcome this difficulty, we explore a theoretical possibility of the second quantization of the Universe, following the same passage historically taken for the Klein-Gordon particles and the Nambu-Goto strings. It turns out that multiple production of universes is an inevitable consequence even if the initial state is nothing. The problematical interpretation of the wave function of the Universe is circumvented by introducing an internal comoving model detector, which is an analogue of the DeWitt-Unruh detector in quantum field theory in curved space-time.

  • Received 15 August 1988

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.39.1123

©1989 American Physical Society

Authors & Affiliations

Akio Hosoya

  • Research Institute for Theoretical Physics, Hiroshima University, Takehara, Hiroshima 725, Japan

Masahiro Morikawa

  • Department of Physics, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606, Japan

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Vol. 39, Iss. 4 — 15 February 1989

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