Exact path integrals on half-line in quantum cosmology with a fluid clock and aspects of operator ordering ambiguity

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2501.11680v1
• Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2025 19:00:02 GMT
• Title: Exact path integrals on half-line in quantum cosmology with a fluid clock and aspects of operator ordering ambiguity
• Authors: Vikramaditya Mondal, Harkirat Singh Sahota, Kinjalk Lochan,
• Abstract summary: We perform $textitexact$ half-line path integral quantization of flat, homogeneous cosmological models containing a perfect fluid acting as an internal clock. We argue that a particular ordering prescription in the quantum theory can preserve two symmetries.
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• Abstract: We perform $\textit{exact}$ half-line path integral quantization of flat, homogeneous cosmological models containing a perfect fluid acting as an internal clock, in a $D+1$ dimensional minisuperspace setup. We also discuss certain classes of operator ordering ambiguity inherent in such quantization procedures and argue that a particular ordering prescription in the quantum theory can preserve two symmetries, namely arbitrary lapse rescalings and general covariance, which are already present at the classical level. As a result of this imposition, a large class of quantum Hamiltonians differing by operator ordering produces the same inner products between quantum states. This imposition of the two symmetries of the classical minisuperspace models leads to a unique prescription for writing the quantum Hamiltonian for minisuperspace dimension $D\geq 2$. Interestingly, in the case of $D=1$, the lapse rescaling symmetry is lost in the quantum theory, leading to an essentially ambiguous description of the canonical theory. We provide general proof of this in the context of both canonical quantization and path integrals. We supply concrete examples to validate our findings further.

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