Singular instantons and creation of open universes
High Energy Physics - Theory
2010-01-06 v2 Astrophysics
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Abstract
Singular instantons of the type introduced by Hawking and Turok (hep-th/9802030) lead to unacceptable physical consequences and cannot, therefore, be used to describe the creation of open universes.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-th/9803084,
title = {Singular instantons and creation of open universes},
author = {Alexander Vilenkin},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9803084},
year = {2010}
}
Comments
4 pages, revtex. Note added commenting on Hawking and Turok's (hep-th/9803156) response to this paper