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A calculation of the no-boundary wave-function of the universe is put forward for a spacetime with negative curvature. A semi-classical Robertson-Walker approximation is attempted and two solutions to the field equations, one Lorentzian and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 G. Oliveira-Neto

We specify the semiclassical no-boundary wave function of the universe without relying on a functional integral of any kind. The wave function is given as a sum of specific saddle points of the dynamical theory that satisfy conditions of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-02-27 Jonathan J. Halliwell , James B. Hartle , Thomas Hertog

It has been recently conjectured that the exact eigenfunctions of quantum mirror curves can be obtained by combining their WKB expansion with the open topological string wavefunction. In this paper we give further evidence for this…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-12-21 Marcos Marino , Szabolcs Zakany

We study canonical quantization of a closed Euclidean universe with a cosmological constant and a massless scalar field. The closed Euclidean universe with an ordinary matter state can be matched at a finite radius only with the closed…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Sang Pyo Kim

Wheeler-DeWitt equation is applied to $k > 0$ Friedmann Robertson Walker metric with various types of matter. It is shown that if the Universe ends in the matter dominated era (e.g., radiation or pressureless gas) with zero cosmological…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-11-01 Jong Hyun Kung

Using the Hartle-Hawking no-boundary proposal for the wave function of the universe, we can study the wave function and probability of a single black hole created at the birth of the universe. The black hole originates from a constrained…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Wu Zhong Chao

There is a mathematical analogy between the propagation of fields in a general relativistic space-time and long (shallow water) surface waves on moving water. Hawking argued that black holes emit thermal radiation via a quantum spontaneous…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-02-01 Silke Weinfurtner , Edmund W. Tedford , Matthew C. J. Penrice , William G. Unruh , Gregory A. Lawrence

In this paper, by using bifurcation method, we successfully find the Fornberg-Whitham equation has a type of traveling wave solutions called kink-like wave solutions and antikinklike wave solutions. They are defined on some semifinal…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-07-31 Jiangbo Zhou , Lixin Tian

The cosmological term is assumed to be a function of time such as $\Lambda =Ba^{-2}$ where a(t) means the scale factor of standard cosmology. Analytical solutions for radiation dominated epoch and open universe are found. For closed…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Carlos Pinheiro , F. C. Khanna

Proposing smooth initial conditions is one of the most important tasks in quantum cosmology. On the other hand, the low-energy effective action, appearing in the semiclassical path integral, can get nontrivial quantum corrections near…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-11-07 Suddhasattwa Brahma , Dong-han Yeom

The Hawking radiation of static, spherically symmetric, asymptotically flat solutions in quadratic gravity, is here explored. The emitted fermions are governed by the Dirac equation in the generalized uncertainty principle (GUP) context,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-05-29 Iberê Kuntz , Roldao da Rocha

The instability against emission of massless particles by the trapping horizon of an evolving black hole is analyzed with the use of the Hamilton-Jacobi method. The method automatically selects one special expression for the surface gravity…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 R. Di Criscienzo , M. Nadalini , L. Vanzo , S. Zerbini , G. Zoccatelli

An exact solution for the expansion of a flat universe with dark energy evolving according to a simple model is explored. The equation for weak primordial gravitational waves propagating in this universe is solved and explored;…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-06-19 Edmund Schluessel

Solution of the Schr\"odinger's equation in the zero order WKB approximation is analyzed. We observe and investigate several remarkable features of the WKB$_0$ method. Solution in the whole region is built with the help of simple connection…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. N. Sergeenko

Assuming the space dimension is not constant, but varies with the expansion of the Universe, a Lagrangian formulation for a toy model Universe is given. There is a free paremeter in the theory, $C$, with which we can fix the dimension of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-17 Reza Mansouri , Forough Nasseri

A discrete class of privileged reference frames in a closed universe with identical equations of motion for physical degrees of freedom was found. A representation of the quantum state of the universe in a privileged reference frame was…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-17 Natalia Gorobey , Alexander Lukyanenk , A. V. Goltsev

In this paper, a cosmological model with an isotropic form of the Morris-Thorne type wormhole was derived in a similar way to the McVittie solution to the black hole in the expanding universe. By solving Einstein's field equation with…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-04-04 Sung-Won Kim

Within the mini-superspace model, brane-like cosmology means performing the variation with respect to the embedding (Minkowski) time $\tau$ before fixing the cosmic (Einstein) time $t$. The departure from Einstein limit is parameterized by…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 Aharon Davidson , David Karasik , Yoav Lederer

Pure states in quantum field theory can be represented by many-fingered block-time wave functions, which treat time on an equal footing with space and make the notions of "time evolution" and "state at a given time" fundamentally…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-01-15 H. Nikolic

We study multidimensional cosmology to obtain the wavefunction of the universe using wormhole dominance proposal. Using a prescription for time we obtain the Schroedinger-Wheeler-DeWitt equation without any reference to WD equation and WKB…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-17 S. Biswas , A. Shaw , D. Biswas