Quantum Cosmology With R+R^2 Gravity

Abstract

Canonical quantization of an action containing curvature squared term requires introduction of an auxiliary variable. Boulware etal[1] prescribed a technique to choose such a variable, by taking derivative of an action with respect to the highest derivative of the field variable, present in the action.It has been shown that[2] this technique can even be applied in situations where introduction of auxiliary variables are not at all required, leading to wrong Wheeler-deWitt equation. It has also been pointed out that[2] Boulware etal's[1] prescription should be taken up only after removing all removable total derivative terms from the action. Once this is done only a unique description of quantum dynamics would emerge. For curvature squared term this technique yields, for the first time, a quantum mechanical probability interpretation of quantum cosmology, and an effective potential, whose extremization leads to Einstein's equation. We conclude that Einstein-Hilbert action should essentially be modified by at least a curvature squared term to get a quantum mechanical formulation of quantuum cosmology and hence extend our previous work[2] for such an action along with a scalar field.

8 pages, Latex2e

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