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We extend to multidimensional cosmology Vilenkin's prescription of tunnelling from nothing for the quantum origin of the observable Universe. Our model consists of a $D+4$-dimensional spacetime of topology ${\cal R}\times {\cal S}^3…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-28 Enrico Carugno , Marco Litterio , Franco Occhionero , Giuseppe Pollifrone

The Wheeler--DeWitt equation for a flat and compact Friedmann--Lema\^{i}tre--Robertson--Walker cosmology at the pre-inflation epoch is studied in the contexts of the standard and fractional quantum cosmology. Working within the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-04-17 S. M. M. Rasouli , E. W. Oliveira Costa , P. V. Moniz , S. Jalalzadeh

In the paper the closed Friedmann--Robertson--Walker model with quantization in the presence of the positive cosmological constant and radiation is studied. For analysis of tunneling probability for birth of an asymptotically deSitter,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-05-07 Sergei P. Maydanyuk

In canonical quantum gravity, the wave function for a hypersurface inside a Schwarzschild black hole can be obtained by solving the Wheeler-DeWitt equation. What is of prime importance is the behavior of the wave function for the future…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-09-05 Suddhasattwa Brahma , Che-Yu Chen , Dong-han Yeom

Wave functions specifying a quantum state of the universe must satisfy the constraints of general relativity, in particular the Wheeler-DeWitt equation (WDWE). We show for a wide class of models with non-zero cosmological constant that…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-08-01 James B. Hartle , S. W. Hawking , Thomas Hertog

Within the third quantisation formalism, we find solutions of the Wheeler-DeWitt in terms of two sets of modes that can be identified with the Hartle-Hawking's no boundary condition and with the Vilenkin's tunneling boundary condition,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-10-14 Salvador J. Robles-Pérez

Our universe is born of a tunnelling from nothing in quantum cosmology. Nothing here can be interpreted as a state with zero entropy. As a reliable modification of the Hartle-Hawking wave function of the universe, the improved…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Qing-Guo Huang

An approach to compute quantum-gravity corrections to the scalar and tensorial power spectra of the inflationary perturbations is presented. The analysis of the Wheeler-DeWitt equation is performed by a decomposition of the wave function…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-04-10 David Brizuela , Unai Muniain

Motivated by previous works, we study semi-classical cosmological solutions and the wave function of the Wheeler-DeWitt equation in the Bose-Parker-Peleg model. We obtain the wave function of the universe satisfying the suitable boundary…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Wontae Kim , Edwin J. Son , Myung Seok Yoon

Multidimensional cosmological models with $n~(n > 1)$ Einstein spaces are discussed classically and with respect to canonical quantization. These models are integrable in the case of Ricci flat internal spaces. For negative curvature of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-09-25 U. Bleyer , A. Zhuk

We find a novel phenomenon in the solution to the Wheeler-DeWitt equation by solving numerically the equation assuming $O(4)$-symmetry and imposing the Hartle-Hawking wave function as a boundary condition. In the slow-roll limit, as…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-05-13 Subeom Kang , Wan-il Park , Dong-han Yeom

We consider the possibility of a past and future eternal universe, constructing geodesically complete inflating, loitering, and bouncing spacetimes. We identify the constraints energy conditions in General Relativity place on the building…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-08-25 Damien A. Easson , Joseph E. Lesnefsky

In this work we study the birth of Friedmann-Lema\^{\i}tre-Robertson-Walker (FLRW) models with zero ($k=0$) and negative ($k=-1$) curvatures of the spatial sections. The material content of the models is composed of a radiation perfect…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-01-13 G. Oliveira-Neto , D. L. Canedo , G. A. Monerat

We discuss black hole quantization in the Wheeler-DeWitt approach. Our consideration is based on a detailed investigation of the canonical formulation of gravity with special considerations of surface terms. Since the phase space of gravity…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-07-19 Thorsten Brotz

We wish to demonstrate how the presence of a dynamic cosmological parameter, plus a model of the universe as a quantum computer can be combined to give us a picture of early universe inflationary physics which is quite non linear, with a…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-11-10 A. W. Beckwith

The tunneling hamiltonian has proven to be a useful method in many body physics to treat particle tunneling between different states represented as wave functions. Here we apply a generalization of a way we formed appropriate wave…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. W. Beckwith

The d'Alembertian $\Box\phi=0$ has solution $\phi=f(v)/r$, where $f$ is a function of a null coordinate $v$, and this allows creation of a divergent singularity out of nothing. In scalar-Einstein theory a similar situation arises both for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-03-16 Mark D. Roberts

The Wheeler-DeWitt equation arising from a Kantowski-Sachs model is considered for a Schwarzschild black hole under the assumption that the scale factors and the associated momenta satisfy a noncanonical noncommutative extension of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-02-23 Catarina Bastos , Orfeu Bertolami , Nuno Costa Dias , João Nuno Prata

We contrast the possibility of inflation starting a) from the universe's inception or b) from an earlier non-inflationary state. Neither case is ideal since a) assumes quantum mechanical reasoning is straightforwardly applicable to the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 D. H. Coule

We demonstrate in the context of the minisuperspace model consisting of a closed Friedmann-Robertson-Walker universe coupled to a scalar field that Vilenkin's tunneling wavefunction can only be consistently defined for particular choices of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 N. Kontoleon , D. L. Wiltshire