The wave function discord
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
2009-10-31 v1 Astrophysics
High Energy Physics - Theory
Abstract
Linde's proposal of a Euclidean path integral with the ``wrong'' sign of Euclidean action is often identified with the tunneling proposal for the wave function of the universe. However, the two proposals are in fact quite different. I illustrate the difference and point out that recent criticism by Hawking and Turok does not apply to the tunneling proposal.
Cite
@article{arxiv.gr-qc/9804051,
title = {The wave function discord},
author = {Alexander Vilenkin},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/9804051},
year = {2009}
}
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7 pages, 2 figures