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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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