Canonical quantization reveals solutions to momentum constraints in spherically symmetric spacetimes, suggesting further exploration.
We investigate canonical quantization of a general spherically symmetric spacetimes with a massless scalar-field source and examine the associated constraint algebra. The spacetimes are quantized using Dirac's quantization method for constrained systems, producing a set of Wheeler-DeWitt equations. A general solution for some of these equations, specifically the momentum constraint, is found and discussed. A complete solution to the whole set of equations (namely the Hamiltonian constraint) remains yet to be found, however. A full solution can be recovered for a static version of these spacetimes.
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Jǐŕı Černý (2025) studied this question.
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