A Note on Real Tunneling Geometries
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
2010-04-28 v1
Abstract
In the Hartle-Hawking ``no boundary'' approach to quantum cosmology, a real tunneling geometry is a configuration that represents a transition from a compact Riemannian spacetime to a Lorentzian universe. I complete an earlier proof that in three spacetime dimensions, such a transition is ``probable,'' in the sense that the required Riemannian geometry yields a genuine maximum of the semiclassical wave function.
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@article{arxiv.gr-qc/0508072,
title = {A Note on Real Tunneling Geometries},
author = {S. Carlip},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/0508072},
year = {2010}
}
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