Abstract
What is this book about? What is quantum cosmology with supersymmetry? How is supersymmetry implemented? Is it through the use of (recent developments in) a superstring theory? Why should the very early universe be explored in that manner? Are there enticing and interesting research problems left to solve? How relevant would it be to address and solve them?
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Notes
- 1.
N = 1 4D SUGRA can follow from 11D or 10D SUGRA through suitable compactifications and restrictions. Other 4D limits are, e.g., N = 2 SUGRA (which constitutes the sought route to bring Einstein’s general relativity and Maxwell’s electromagnetism within a unified setting), and N = 8 SUGRA [9] (which was long considered the best hope for a unified theory of all interactions and quantum gravity).
References
Bailin, D., Love, A.: Supersymmetric Gauge Field Theory and String Theory. Graduate Student Series in Physics, 322pp. IOP, Bristol (1994)
Binetruy, P.: Supersymmetry. Oxford University Press, Cambridge (2006)
Freund, P.G.O.: Introduction to Supersymmetry. Cambridge Monographs on Mathematical Physics, 152pp. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge (1986)
Martin, S.P.: A Supersymmetry Primer. hep-ph/9709356 (1997)
Muller-Kirsten, H.J.W., Wiedemann, A.: Supersymmetry: An Introduction with Conceptual and Calculational Details, pp. 1–586. World Scientific (1987). Print-86–0955 (Kaiserslautern) (1986)
Polonsky, N.: Supersymmetry: Structure and phenomena. Extensions of the standard model. Lect. Notes Phys. M 68, 1–169 (2001)
Sohnius, M.F.: Introducing supersymmetry. Phys. Rep. 128, 39–204 (1985)
Weinberg, S.: The Quantum Theory of Fields. 3: Supersymmetry, p. 419. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge (2000)
Van Nieuwenhuizen, P.: Supergravity. Phys. Rep. 68, 189–398 (1981)
Wess, J., Bagger, J.: Supersymmetry and Supergravity, p. 259. Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ (1992)
West, P.C.: Introduction to Supersymmetry and Supergravity, p. 425. World Scientific, Singapore (1990)
Polchinski, J.: String Theory. 1. An Introduction to the Bosonic String, p. 402. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge (1998)
Polchinski, J.: String Theory. 2. Superstring Theory and Beyond, p. 531. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge (1998)
Zwiebach, B.: A First Course in String Theory, p. 558. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge (2004)
Duff, M.J. (ed.): The World in Eleven Dimensions: Supergravity, Supermembranes, and M-Theory, p. 513. IOP, Bristol (1999)
Duff, M.J.: Ten big questions. AIP Conf. Proc. 758, 3–29 (2005)
Duff, M.J.: Top ten problems in fundamental physics. Int. J. Mod. Phys. A 16, 1012–1013 (2001)
Johnson, C.V.: D-Branes, p. 548. Cambridge University Press, New York (2003)
Kaku, M.: Introduction to Superstrings and M-Theory, p. 587. Springer, Heidelberg (1999)
Kaku, M.: Strings, Conformal Fields, and M-Theory, p. 531. Springer, Heidelberg (2000)
Kiefer, C.: Quantum Gravity. International Series of Monographs on Physics, vol. 136, 2nd edn., pp. 1–308. Clarendon Press, Oxford (2007)
Bouhmadi-López, M., Moniz, P.V.: Quantisation of parameters and the string landscape problem. hep-th/0612149 (2006)
Bousso, R.: Precision cosmology and the landscape. hep-th/0610211 (2006)
Easther, R., Greene, B.R., Kinney, W.H., Shiu, G.: Imprints of short distance physics on inflationary cosmology. Phys. Rev. D 67, 063508 (2003)
Kinney, W.H.: Cosmology, inflation, and the physics of nothing. astro-ph/0301448 (2003)
Tegmark, M.: What does inflation really predict? J. Cosmol. Astropart. Phys. 0504, 001 (2005)
Turner, M.S.: A sober assessment of cosmology at the new millennium. Publ. Astron. Soc. Pac. 113, 653 (2001)
Fang, L.-Z., Ruffini, R. (eds.): Quantum Cosmology. Advanced Series in Astrophysics and Cosmology 3, 329pp. World Scientific, Singapore (1987)
Halliwell, J.J.: Introductory lectures on quantum cosmology. In: Proceedings of Jerusalem Winter School on Quantum Cosmology and Baby Universes, Jerusalem, Israel, 27 December 1989–4 January 1990
Hawking, S.W.: Lectures on quantum cosmology. In: De Vega, H.J., Sanchez, N. (eds.) Field Theory, Quantum Gravity and Strings, Lecture Notes in Physics, 246, pp. 1–45. Springer, Heidelberg (1986)
Kiefer, C.: Quantum gravity: A general introduction. Lect. Notes Phys. 631, 3–13 (2003)
Kiefer, C.: Conceptual issues in quantum cosmology. Lect. Notes Phys. 541, 158–187 (2000)
Page, D.N.: Lectures on quantum cosmology. In: Mann, R.B., et al. (eds.) Proceedings of Banff Summer Institution on Gravitation, Banff, Canada, 12–15 August 1990. World Scientific, Singapore (1991)
Wiltshire, D.L.: An introduction to quantum cosmology. In: Robson, B., Visvanathan, N., Woolcock, W.S. (eds.) Cosmology: The Physics of the Universe, Proceedings of the 8th Physics Summer School, A.N.U., January–February 1995, pp. 473–531. World Scientific, Singapore (1996). gr-qc/0101003 (1995)
Arnowitt, R., Deser, S., Misner, C.W.: Canonical variables for general relativity. Phys. Rev. 117, 1595–1602 (1960)
Arnowitt, R., Deser, S., Misner, C.W.: The dynamics of general relativity. gr-qc/0405109 (1962)
DeWitt, B.S.: Quantum theory of gravity. I. The canonical theory. Phys. Rev. 160, 1113–1148 (1967)
Dewitt, C.M., Wheeler, J.A. (eds.): Battelle rencontres. 1967 Lectures in Mathematics and Physics (Seattle), 557pp. W.A. Benjamin, New York (1968)
Misner, C.W.: Minisuperspace. In: Klauder, J.R. (ed.) Magic Without Magic, pp. 441–473. Freeman, San Francisco (1972)
Ryan, M.P., Shepley, L.C.: Homogeneous Relativistic Cosmologies. Princeton Series in Physics, 320pp. Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ (1975)
Wheeler, J.A.: Superspace. In: Gilbert, R., Newton, R. (eds.) Analytic Methods in Mathematical Physics, pp. 335–378. Gordon and Breach, New York (1970)
Wheeler, J.A.: Superspace and the nature of quantum geometrodynamics. In: Fang, L.-Z., Ruffini, R. (eds.) Quantum Cosmology, pp. 27–92. World Scientific, Singapore (1988)
Wheeler, J.A.: On the nature of quantum geometrodynamics. Ann. Phys. 2, 604–614 (1957)
Hartle, J.B.: Quantum cosmology: Problems for the 21st century. gr-qc/9701022 (1997)
Hawking, S.W.: Quantum cosmology. In: 300 Years of Gravity: A Conference to Mark the 300th Anniversary of the Publication of Newton’s Principia, Cambridge, England, 29 June–4 July 1987
Kiefer, C.: Quantum cosmology: Expectations and results. Annalen Phys. 15, 316–325 (2006)
Vilenkin, A.: Quantum creation of universes. Phys. Rev. D 30, 509–511 (1984)
Vilenkin, A.: Creation of universes from nothing. Phys. Lett. B 117, 25 (1982)
Vilenkin, A.: The birth of inflationary universes. Phys. Rev. D 27, 2848 (1983)
D’Eath, P.D.: Supersymmetric Quantum Cosmology, p. 252. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge (1996)
Esposito, G.: Quantum gravity, quantum cosmology, and Lorentzian geometries. Lect. Notes Phys. M 12, 1–326 (1992)
Macias, A.: The ideas behind the different approaches to quantum cosmology. Gen. Rel. Grav. 31, 653–671 (1999)
Macias, A., Obregon, O., Ryan, M.P.: Quantum cosmology: The supersymmetric square root. Class. Quant. Grav. 4, 1477–1486 (1987)
Pilati, M.: The canonical formulation of supergravity. Nucl. Phys. B 132, 138 (1978)
Moniz, P.V.: Supersymmetric quantum cosmology – shaken not stirred. Int. J. Mod. Phys. A 11, 4321–4382 (1996)
Kiefer, C., Luck, T., Moniz, P.: The semiclassical approximation to supersymmetric quantum gravity. Phys. Rev. D 72, 045006 (2005)
Moniz, P.V.: A tale of two symmetries or the quantum universe from supersymmetry and duality. Nucl. Phys. Proc. Suppl. 88, 57–66 (2000)
Moniz, P.V.: Origin of structure in a supersymmetric quantum universe. Phys. Rev. D 57, 7071–7074 (1998)
Tabensky, R., Teitelboim, C.: The square root of general relativity. Phys. Lett. B 69, 453 (1977)
Teitelboim, C.: Supergravity and square roots of constraints. Phys. Rev. Lett. 38, 1106–1110 (1977)
Lidsey, J.E.: Scale factor duality and hidden supersymmetry in scalar–tensor cosmology. Phys. Rev. D 52, 5407–5411 (1995)
Freedman, D.Z., van Nieuwenhuizen, P.: Supergravity and the unification of the laws of physics. Sci. Am. 238, 126–143 (1978)
Luckock, H., Oliwa, C.: Quantisation of Bianchi class A models in supergravity and the probability density function of the universe. In: 7th Marcel Grossmann Meeting on General Relativity (MG 7), Stanford, CA, 24–30 July 1994
Moniz, P.V.: Can the imprint of an early supersymmetric quantum cosmological epoch be present in our cosmological observations? In: COSMO 97: 1st International Workshop on Particle Physics and the Early Universe, Ambleside, England, 15–19 September 1997
Moniz, P.: FRW minisuperspace with local N = 4 supersymmetry and self-interacting scalar field. Annalen Phys. 12, 174–198 (2003)
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Corresponding author
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2010 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
About this chapter
Cite this chapter
Moniz, P.V. (2010). Introduction. In: Quantum Cosmology - The Supersymmetric Perspective - Vol. 2. Lecture Notes in Physics, vol 804. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-11570-7_1
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-11570-7_1
Published:
Publisher Name: Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg
Print ISBN: 978-3-642-11569-1
Online ISBN: 978-3-642-11570-7
eBook Packages: Physics and AstronomyPhysics and Astronomy (R0)