Dear Colleagues,
TITLE: Combining gravity with the forces of the standard model on a cosmological scale
AUTHORS: Claus Gerhardt
It gives me great pleasure to notify you of the publication of the above article in Classical and Quantum Gravity.
This article received very positive comments and a high quality rating from its referees. The article is available to download here:
http://herald.iop.org/branding/m19/rzl/$CONTACT_ID/link/3780
Please find a summary of the developments made in this article written by the authors below:
We prove the existence of a spectral resolution of the Wheeler-DeWitt equation when the underlying spacetime is a Friedman universe with flat spatial slices and where the matter fields are comprised of the strong interaction, with SU(3) replaced by a general SU(n), n >= 2, and the electro-weak interaction.
The wave functions are maps from R[4n+10] to a subspace of the antisymmetric Fock space, and one noteworthy result is that, whenever the electro-weak interaction is involved, the image of an eigenfunction is in general not one dimensional, i.e., in general it makes no sense specifying a fermion and looking for an eigenfunction the range of which is contained in the one dimensional vector space spanned by the fermion
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Classical and Quantum Gravity