Functional change of variables in the Wheeler-De Witt equation

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1993-04-30
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I present a new way to solve the Wheeler-de Witt equation using the invariance of the classical lagrangian under reparametrization. This property allows one to introduce an arbitrary function for each degree of freedom of the wave function $\Psi$: this arbitrariness can be used to fix the asymptotic behaviour of $\Psi$ so as to obtain a wave function representing a closed universe or a wormhole. These considerations are applied in detail to the Kantowsky-Sachs spacetime.
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11 pages, no figures. Plain tex
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