Phys. Rev. A 57, 2357 - 2367 (1998)

Coherent-state approach to time-reparametrization invariant systems

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M. C. Ashworth *
Department of Physics, University of California, Davis, California 95616

Received 6 December 1996

For many years, coherent states have been a useful tool for understanding fundamental questions in quantum mechanics. Recently, there has been work on developing a consistent way of including constraints into the phase space path integral that naturally arises in coherent-state quantization. This approach has many advantages over other approaches, including the lack of any Gribov problems, the independence of gauge fixing, and the ability to handle second-class constraints without any ambiguous determinants. In this paper, I use this approach to study some examples of time-reparametrization invariant systems, which are of special interest in the field of quantum gravity.


©1998 The American Physical Society

URL: http://link.aps.org/abstract/PRA/v57/p2357
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.57.2357
PACS: 03.65.Db, 04.60.-m

* Electronic address: mikea@landau.ucdavis.edu

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