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From 'nothing' to inflation and back again

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2014-01-21 v1

Abstract

A procedure for solving Wheeler-DeWitt equation in Euclidean region, following step by step the construction of tunneling wave function in nonrelativistic quantum mechanics by Banks, Bender and Wu, is proposed. Solutions for a universe satisfying no-boundary condition and a universe created from 'nothing' are compared to the corresponding solutions for a particle in a two-dimensional potential well, and effects of indefiniteness of metric and zero energy in Wheeler-DeWitt equation are discussed.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.1401.4870,
  title  = {From 'nothing' to inflation and back again},
  author = {Vladimír Balek},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1401.4870},
  year   = {2014}
}

Comments

8 pages, presented at the conference Relativity and Gravitation, 100 years after Einstein in Prague (Prague 2012)

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