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arXiv 0905.0632gr-qcquant-ph
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超越边界条件:一般宇宙学理论

Beyond Boundary Conditions: General Cosmological Theories

Adrian Kent

摘要:

时间对称的宇宙学理论,其中的初始状态和最终状态被安排有相似的特征或独立固定,已经在文献中进行了相当广泛的讨论。然而,令人惊讶的是,似乎从未考虑过一种更普遍、也许更有用的可能性。量子宇宙学,就像任何固有的概率动力学理论一样,可以通过一系列宇宙事件的发生来修改,这些宇宙事件是先验固定的,与哈密顿量和初始状态无关。这些更一般的理论提供了一个自然的替代品,最终应该是有用的,在量化的假设,即初始条件足够的是由数据支持。

英文摘要:

Time-symmetric cosmological theories, in which the initial and final states are arranged to have similar features or are independently fixed, have been quite extensively discussed in the literature. However, a more general and perhaps more useful possibility seems, surprisingly, never to have been considered. Quantum cosmology, like any inherently probabilistic dynamical theory, can be modified by conditioning on the occurrence of a sequence of cosmological events fixed a priori and independently of the hamiltonian and initial state. These more general theories provide a natural class of alternatives which should eventually be useful in quantifying how well the hypothesis that initial conditions suffice is supported by the data.

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