Essential self-adjointness in one-loop quantum cosmology
arXiv:gr-qc/9510020 · doi:10.1088/0264-9381/13/5/014
Abstract
The quantization of closed cosmologies makes it necessary to study squared Dirac operators on closed intervals and the corresponding quantum amplitudes. This paper proves self-adjointness of these second-order elliptic operators.
14 pages, plain Tex. An Erratum has been added to the end, which corrects section 3
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