Quantization of the canonical tensor model and an exact wave function

Abstract

Tensor models in various forms are being studied as models of quantum gravity. Among them the canonical tensor model has a canonical pair of rank-three tensors as dynamical variables, and is a pure constraint system with first-class constraints. The Poisson algebra of the first-class constraints provides an algebraically consistent way of discretizing the Dirac algebra for general relativity. This paper successfully formulates the Wheeler-DeWitt quantization of the canonical tensor model. Formally one can obtain wave functions of the "universe" by solving the partial differential equations representing the constraints. For the simplest non-trivial case, the unique wave function is exactly and globally obtained. Although this case is far from being realistic, the wave function is physically interesting; locality is favored, and there exists a locus of configurations with features of the beginning of the universe.