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Dirac Quantization in Kantowski—Sachs Spacetime

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By forming the square root of the Wheeler-DeWitt equation and applying itto a minisuperspace composed of a Kantowski-Sachs universe, we derive acosmological wave function with conserved current and positive-definiteprobability density.

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  1. National Astronomical Observatory, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100101, China

    You-gen Shen & Tong-jie Zhang

  2. Shanghai Astronomical Observatory, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, 200030, China

    You-gen Shen & Tong-jie Zhang

  3. Institute of Theoretical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100080, China

    You-gen Shen

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Shen, Yg., Zhang, Tj. Dirac Quantization in Kantowski—Sachs Spacetime. International Journal of Theoretical Physics 39, 1049–1053 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1003602508208

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