Dominant topologies in Euclidean quantum gravity

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/15/9/010zbMATH Open0938.83010arXivgr-qc/9710114OpenAlexW2054988941MaRDI QIDQ4699731FDOQ4699731

Steven Carlip

Publication date: 18 November 1999

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

Abstract: The dominant topologies in the Euclidean path integral for quantum gravity differ sharply according on the sign of the cosmological constant. For $Lambda>0$, saddle points can occur only for topologies with vanishing first Betti number and finite fundamental group. For $Lambda<0$, on the other hand, the path integral is dominated by topologies with extremely complicated fundamental groups; while the contribution of each individual manifold is strongly suppressed, the ``density of topologies grows fast enough to overwhelm this suppression. The value $Lambda=0$ is thus a sort of boundary between phases in the sum over topologies. I discuss some implications for the cosmological constant problem and the Hartle-Hawking wave function.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9710114

zbMATH Keywords

cosmological constantquantum gravitysaddle pointEuclidean path integralHartle-Hawking wavefunctionapproximation for path integralsdominant topologies

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General geometric structures on low-dimensional manifolds (57M50) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45) Relativistic cosmology (83F05)

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