Quantum Singularities

• Grant number: 08/01310-5
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate
• Start date: May 01, 2008
• End date: August 31, 2011
• Field of knowledge: Physical Sciences and Mathematics - Physics
• Principal Investigator: Alberto Vazquez Saa
• Grantee: João Paulo Pitelli Manoel
• Host Institution: Instituto de Matemática, Estatística e Computação Científica (IMECC). Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Campinas , SP, Brazil

Abstract

Classicaly singular spacetimes will be studied from the view point of quantum mechanics. The introduction of quantum mechanics will be made in two different ways. The first consists in coupling conformally scalar and spinorial fields to the gravitational field and studing the behaviour of a single particle wave packet in this curved background. The second consists in to find the wave function of the "universe" by solving Wheeler-DeWitt equation for the canonical variables of the spacetime.

Scientific publications

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CARLIP, S.; MOSNA, R. A.; PITELLI, J. P. M.. Vacuum Fluctuations and the Small Scale Structure of Spacetime. Physical Review Letters, v. 107, n. 2, p. 21303, 2011. (08/01310-5)

LETELIER, PATRICIO S.; PITELLI, JOAO PAULO M.. n-dimensional FLRW quantum cosmology. Physical Review D, v. 82, n. 10, NOV 23 2010. (08/01310-5, 09/54572-0)