Phys. Rev. A 57, 2357 - 2367 (1998)Coherent-state approach to time-reparametrization invariant systems
M. C. Ashworth * 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 * Electronic address: mikea@landau.ucdavis.edu [ Abstract | Previous article | Next article | Issue 4 ] |
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