Pilot wave quantum cosmology

Yu. V. Shtanov
Phys. Rev. D 54, 2564 – Published 15 August 1996
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Abstract

The de Broglie-Bohm (pilot wave) formulation of quantum theory appears to be free from the conceptual problems specific to quantum mechanics (problem of measurement) and to quantum cosmology (problem of time). We further study the extension of this formulation to the case of gravity and demonstrate that the foliation of spacetime by spacelike hypersurfaces obtained during the solution of the quantum problem turns out to be distinguished in general. This means that quantum pilot wave dynamics is not invariant with respect to an arbitrary change of foliation, or, in other terms, that quantum nonlocality takes place. We also discuss the general structure of a realistic pilot wave theory that could describe the universe.

  • Received 20 December 1995

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.54.2564

©1996 American Physical Society

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Yu. V. Shtanov

  • Bogolyubov Institute for Theoretical Physics, 252143 Kiev, Ukraine

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Vol. 54, Iss. 4 — 15 August 1996

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