A Stringy Wave Function for an S^3 Cosmology
High Energy Physics - Theory
2009-11-11 v1
Abstract
Using the recent observations of the relation between Hartle-Hawking wave function and topological string partition function, we propose a wave function for scalar metric fluctuations on S^3 embedded in a Calabi-Yau. This problem maps to a study of non-critical bosonic string propagating on a circle at the self-dual radius. This can be viewed as a stringy toy model for a quantum cosmology.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-th/0505204,
title = {A Stringy Wave Function for an S^3 Cosmology},
author = {Sergei Gukov and Kirill Saraikin and Cumrun Vafa},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0505204},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
21 pages, 3 figures, harvmac