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Semiclassical Limit and Time in Quantum Cosmology

Dongsu Bak, Sang Pyo Kim, Sung Ku Kim, Kwang-Sup Soh, Jae Hyung Yee

gr-qcarXiv:gr-qc/9907031

Abstract

We propose a method to recover the time variable and the classical evolution of the Universe from the minisuperspace wave function of the Wheeler-DeWitt equation. Defining a Hamilton-Jacobi characteristic function W as the imaginary part of the Ψ we can recover the classical solution, and quantum corrections. The key idea is to let the energy of the Wheeler-DeWitt equation vanish only after the semiclassical limit is taken.

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