Waves in the Witten bubble of nothing and the Hawking wormhole (Q521157)

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Waves in the Witten bubble of nothing and the Hawking wormhole
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    Waves in the Witten bubble of nothing and the Hawking wormhole (English)
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    6 April 2017
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    Witten introduced an classical solution of the Euclidean Einstein equations representing an instanton that represents the growth of a ``bubble of nothing'' that expands, eating the whole space-time and includes the Lorentzian Hawking wormhole as a submanifold. This solution was widely studied in the context of quantum cosmology. This piece of work studies the propagation of waves on these space-times. It provides a spectral representation yielding exact solutions and studying their asymptotics and classical and quantum scattering.
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    Witten bubble of nothing
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    wave equations
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    Hawking wormhole
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    Euclidean Einstein equations
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    instanton
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    Lorentzian Hawking wormhole
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    quantum cosmology
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    spectral representation
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    exact solutions
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