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Quantum Cosmological Multidimensional Einstein-Yang-Mills Model in a $R \times S^3 \times S^d$ Topology

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2009-10-28 v2

Abstract

The quantum cosmological version of the multidimensional Einstein-Yang-Mills model in a R×S3×SdR \times S^3 \times S^d topology is studied in the framework of the Hartle-Hawking proposal. In contrast to previous work in the literature, we consider Yang-Mills field configurations with non-vanishing time-dependent components in both S3S^3 and SdS^d spaces. We obtain stable compactifying solutions that do correspond to extrema of the Hartle-Hawking wave function of the Universe. Subsequently, we also show that the regions where 4-dimensional metric behaves classically or quantum mechanically (i.e. regions where the metric is Lorentzian or Euclidean) will depend on the number, dd, of compact space dimensions.

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@article{arxiv.gr-qc/9607015,
  title  = {Quantum Cosmological Multidimensional Einstein-Yang-Mills Model in a $R \times S^3 \times S^d$ Topology},
  author = {O. Bertolami and P. D. Fonseca and P. V. Moniz},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/9607015},
  year   = {2009}
}

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Plain Latex. Version that appeared in the October 15th, 1997 issue of Physical Review D