Peaks in the Hartle–Hawking wavefunction from sums over topologies

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/21/2/025MaRDI QIDQ4470716zbMATHOpenAlexWikidataFDO

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Publication date 15 June 2004

Published in Classical and Quantum Gravity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0310002

zbMATH Keywords

spacetimeEinstein manifoldsquantum cosmologynegative cosmological constantHartle-Hawking wavefunction

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45) Relativistic cosmology (83F05)

Abstract: Recent developments in ``Einstein Dehn filling allow the construction of infinitely many Einstein manifolds that have different topologies but are geometrically close to each other. Using these results, we show that for many spatial topologies, the Hartle-Hawking wave function for a spacetime with a negative cosmological constant develops sharp peaks at certain calculable geometries. The peaks we find are all centered on spatial metrics of constant negative curvature, suggesting a new mechanism for obtaining local homogeneity in quantum cosmology.

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• The Einstein-Vlasov system/kinetic theory

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