There are certainly differences between models, which can be observed already for geometrical spectra
such as area or volume. Akin to level splitting in atoms or molecules, spectra become more complicated
when symmetry is reduced [66, 74, 65]. Also the behavior of densities or curvatures on arbitrary
geometrical configurations can be different in different models. In isotropic models, densities are bounded,
which is a kinematical statement but in this case important for a singularity free evolution. It is important
here since minisuperspace is just one-dimensional and so dynamical trajectories could not pass regions of
unbounded curvature should they exist. Anisotropic models are more characteristic for the approach to
classical singularities, and here curvature expressions in general remain unbounded if all of minisuperspace
is considered. Again, this is only kinematical, and here the dynamics tells us that evolution does not
proceed along directions of unbounded curvature. This is similar in inhomogeneous models studied so
far.
In the full theory the situation becomes again more complicated since here densities can be unbounded even on degenerate configurations of vanishing volume eigenvalue [85]. In this case, however, it is not known what the significance for evolution is, or even the geometrical meaning of the degenerate configurations.
As an analogy one can, as before, take spectroscopy of atoms and level splitting. Essential properties, such as the stability of the hydrogen atom in quantum mechanics as opposed to the classical theory, are unchanged if complicated interactions are taken into account. In this context, it is important to take into account that stability can and does change if arbitrary interactions would be considered, rather than realistic ones, which one already fixed from other observations. Hydrogen then remains stable under those realistic interactions, but its properties would change drastically if any possible interaction term would be considered. Similarly, it is not helpful to consider the behavior of densities on arbitrary geometries unless it is known which configurations are important for dynamics or at least their geometrical role is clear. Dynamics in the canonical picture is encoded in the Hamiltonian constraint, and including it (or suitable observables) in the analysis is analogous, in the picture of atomic spectra, to making use of realistic gravitational interaction terms. In the full theory, such an analysis is currently beyond reach, but it has been extensively studied in loop quantum cosmology. Since the non-singular behavior of models, whether or not curvature is bounded, is a consequence of basic effects and the representation derived from the full theory, it can be taken as reliable information on the behavior in quantum geometry.
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