Decohering WKB Components in the Wave Function of the Universe

ALEJANDRO GANGUI; FRANCISCO D. MAZZITELLI; MARIO A. CASTAGNINO

Modern Problems of Theoretical Physics

World Scientific

Año: 1991; p. 103 - 120

abstract:MODERN PROBLEMS OF THEORETICAL PHYSICSJubilee Volume of D Ivanenko's 85th Birthdayedited by P I Pronin & Yu N Obukhov (Moscow State Univ.)Professor D Ivanenko is well known for his fundamental  contributions to the establishment of the proton-neutron model of nuclei, elaborating the first non-phenomenological theory of nuclearforces. This volume consists of reviews and original scientific reports devoted to the modern problems of theoretical physics. The topics covered include gravitation and cosmology, fundamentals of quantum physics, nuclear physics and thermodynamics.Contents:    * Non-Abelian Einstein-Yang-Mills Fields (D V Galt'sov et al.)    * Spacetime as a Continuum with Microstructure and Metric-Affine Gravity (F W Hehl & Y Ne'eman)    * Decohering WKB Components in the Wave Function of the  Universe (A Gangui et al.)     * Berry's Phase and the Lense-Thirring Effect (Y Q Cai & G Papini)    * Torsion and Quantum Effects (V de Sabbata & C Sivaram)    * On the Experimental Estimates of the Axial Torsion Mass and  Coupling Constants (Yu N Obukhov & I V Yakushin)    * From Quantum Mechanics to Riemannian Space-Time (J Audretsch & C Lämmerzahl)    * Electromagnetic Multipoles in External Fields (I M Benn & R W Tucker)    * Stochastic-Dynamical Approach to Quantum Mechanics (M Namiki & S Tanaka)    * Quantum Theory of Scattering for Weak and for Gravitational Interactions (J Weber)    * and other papers