Quantum Mechanics from General Relativity and the Quantum Friedmann Equation

TL;DR

This paper reveals a fundamental link between General Relativity and Quantum Mechanics by deriving a quantum cosmological equation from the Friedmann equation, demonstrating quantum effects on cosmic dynamics and singularity resolution.

Contribution

It introduces a quantum cosmological equation as a first-order WKB expansion of the Friedmann equation, connecting quantum effects with classical cosmology and black hole physics.

Findings

Quantum scale factor modifies cosmic evolution.

Resolves singularities at zero scale factor.

Duality with Seiberg-Witten black hole formulation.

Abstract

We demonstrate that the recently introduced linear equation, reformulating the first Friedmann equation, is the first-order WKB expansion of a quantum cosmological equation. This result shows a deeper underlying connection between General Relativity and Quantum Mechanics, pointing towards a unified framework. Solutions of this equation are built in terms of a scale factor encapsulating quantum effects on a free-falling particle. The quantum scale factor reshapes cosmic dynamics, resolving singularities at its vanishing points in several cases of interest. As an explicit example, we consider the radiation-dominated era and show that the quantum equation is dual to the one in Seiberg-Witten formulation, recently applied to black holes, and incorporates resurgence phenomena and complex metrics, as developed by Kontsevich, Segal, and Witten. This links to the invariance of time parametrization under $\Gamma(2)$ transformations of the dual wave function.