A Pictorial History of Some Gravitational Instantons
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
2008-02-03 v2 High Energy Physics - Theory
Abstract
Four-dimensional Euclidean spaces that solve Einstein's equations are interpreted as WKB approximations to wavefunctionals of quantum geometry. These spaces are represented graphically by suppressing inessential dimensions and drawing the resulting figures in perspective representation of three-dimensional space, some of them stereoscopically. The figures are also related to the physical interpretation of the corresponding quantum processes.
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@article{arxiv.gr-qc/9302035,
title = {A Pictorial History of Some Gravitational Instantons},
author = {Dieter Brill and Kay-Thomas Pirk},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/9302035},
year = {2008}
}
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20 pages, 14 beautiful figures (not included!), removing an extremely annoying zero from the title Latex, to appear in C. Misner Festschrift