Time Fisher Information associated with Fluctuations in Quantum Geometry

Abstract: As time is not an observable, we use Fisher information (FI) to address the problem of time. We show that the Hamiltonian constraint operator cannot be used to analyze any quantum process for quantum geometries that are associated with time-reparametrization invariant classical geometries. This is because the Hamiltonian constraint does not contain FI about time. We demonstrate that although the Hamiltonian operator is the generator of time, the Hamiltonian constraint operator can not observe the change that arises through the passage of time. This means that the problem of time is inescapably problematic in the associated quantum gravitational theories. Although we explicitly derive these results on the world-sheet of bosonic strings, we argue that it holds in general. We also identify an operator on the world-sheet which contains FI about time in a string theoretical processes. Motivated by this observation, we propose that a criteria for a meaningful operator of any quantum gravitational process, is that it should contain non-vanishing FI about time.