Tunnelling with a negative cosmological constant

DOI10.1016/0550-3213(96)00207-6zbMATH Open0925.83018arXivhep-th/9601075OpenAlexW2037236517MaRDI QIDQ1921043FDOQ1921043

Authors: Gary W. Gibbons 

Publication date: 12 August 1996

Published in: Nuclear Physics B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The point of this paper is see what light new results in hyperbolic geometry may throw on gravitational entropy and whether gravitational entropy is relevant for the quantum origin of the univeres. We introduce some new gravitational instantons which mediate the birth from nothing of closed universes containing wormholes and suggest that they may contribute to the density matrix of the universe. We also discuss the connection between their gravitational action and the topological and volumetric entropies introduced in hyperbolic geometry. These coincide for hyperbolic 4-manifolds, and increase with increasing topological complexity of the four manifold. We raise the questions of whether the action also increases with the topological complexity of the initial 3-geometry, measured either by its three volume or its Matveev complexity. We point out, in distinction to the non-supergravity case, that universes with domains of negative cosmological constant separated by supergravity domain walls cannot be born from nothing. Finally we point out that our wormholes provide examples of the type of Perpetual Motion machines envisaged by Frolov and Novikov.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9601075

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zbMATH Keywords

hyperbolic geometryextremal black holesgravitational instantonstopological entropiesEinstein actionsupergravity domain wallsvolumetric entropies

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General geometric structures on low-dimensional manifolds (57M50) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45)

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