Ultraviolet Behavior of the Wheeler-DeWitt Equation in Horava-Lifshitz Gravity

TL;DR

This paper analyzes the ultraviolet behavior of the Wheeler-DeWitt equation in Horava-Lifshitz gravity, revealing that UV-dominant terms suppress the annihilation-to-nothing behavior and offering insights into quantum singularity resolution.

Contribution

It provides analytical solutions for the Wheeler-DeWitt equation in the UV limit of Horava-Lifshitz gravity across various spatial geometries and cosmological constants, highlighting the suppression of annihilation-to-nothing behavior.

Findings

UV-dominant terms suppress annihilation-to-nothing behavior.

Analytical solutions obtained for different spatial geometries.

Results suggest UV regime may resolve classical singularities.

Abstract

We investigate the quantum structure of black hole interiors in Horava-Lifshitz gravity by analyzing the Wheeler-DeWitt equation in minisuperspace. Focusing on the ultraviolet regime, where higher-order spatial curvature terms dominate, we derive analytical solutions in this UV limit for both the original Horava-Lifshitz action and its analytically continued counterpart. We study their behavior near the event horizon and the classical singularity, with particular attention to the interpretation of the wave function in terms of the annihilation-to-nothing scenario proposed in general relativity. In this paper, we have considered cases in which the two-dimensional spatial section is spherical, planar, or hyperbolic, as well as models with positive, negative, or vanishing cosmological constant. In all cases, we find that the terms dominating in the ultraviolet regime, together with the effects of the running scaling parameter, act to suppress the annihilation-to-nothing behavior. These results suggest that, at least within the range explored in this study, the characteristic annihilation-to-nothing behavior does not appear in the ultraviolet regime of Horava-Lifshitz gravity, and provide a new perspective on the understanding of singularity resolution in quantum gravity.