Resolving the singularity of the Hawking-Turok type instanton

DOI10.1016/S0370-2693(98)01273-8MaRDI QIDQ1850789zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Takeshi Chiba

Publication date 21 December 2002

Published in Physics Letters B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9810002

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45)

Abstract: We point out that the singular instanton of Hawking-Turok type, in which the singularity occurs due to the divergence of a massless scalar field, can be generated by Euclideanized regular $p$-brane solutions in string (or M-) theory upon compactification to four dimensions.

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