1995/12/06 by D. S. Salopek, Salopek, D. S.
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paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/9512031
19 pages, self-unpacking, uuencoded, gz-compressed postscript file, in Proceedings of the International School of Astrophysics, ``D. Chalonge'', Erice, Italy, September 8-19, 1995, Three additional figures
arxiv created 1995/12/06 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30
Recent advances in observational cosmology are changing the way we view the nature of time. In general relativity, the freedom in choosing a time hypersurface has hampered the implementation of the theory. Fortunately, Hamilton-Jacobi theory enables one to describe all time hypersurfaces on an equal footing. Using an expansion in powers of the spatial curvature, one may solve for the wavefunctional in a semiclassical approximation. In this way, one may readily compare predictions of various inflation models with observations of microwave background anisotropies and galaxy clustering.