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Strings as a Model for Parent and Baby Universes: Total Splitting Rates

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-10-28 v1

Abstract

Emission of hard microscopic string (graviton) by an excited macroscopic string may be viewed as a model of branching of a (1+1)(1+1)-dimensional baby universe off large parent one. We show that, apart from a trivial factor, the total emission rate is not suppressed by the size of the macroscopic string. This implies unsuppressed loss of quantum coherence in (1+1)(1+1)-dimensional parent universe.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9510107,
  title  = {Strings as a Model for Parent and Baby Universes: Total Splitting Rates},
  author = {Khazret S. Nirov and Valery A. Rubakov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9510107},
  year   = {2009}
}

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12 pages, LaTeX, 2 figures (bezier.sty)