Four dimensional quantum topology changes of space–times

DOI10.1063/1.531725zbMATH Open0864.53077OpenAlexW3123064144MaRDI QIDQ4716477FDOQ4716477

Authors Shuxue Ding, Yasushige Maeda, Masaru Siino

Publication date 26 November 1996

Published in Journal of Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9503026

zbMATH Keywords

WKB approximationhyperbolic manifoldsquantum cosmology with negative cosmological constantquantum topology changes

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Methods of quantum field theory in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C47) Relativistic cosmology (83F05)

Abstract: We investigate topology changing processes in the WKB approximation of four dimensional quantum cosmology with a negative cosmological constant. As Riemannian manifolds which describe quantum tunnelings of spacetime we consider constant negative curvature solutions of the Einstein equation i.e. hyperbolic geometries. Using four dimensional polytopes, we can explicitly construct hyperbolic manifolds with topologically non-trivial boundaries which describe topology changes. These instanton-like solutions are constructed out of 8-cell's, 16-cell's or 24-cell's and have several points at infinity called cusps. The hyperbolic manifolds are non-compact because of the cusps but have finite volumes. Then we evaluate topology change amplitudes in the WKB approximation in terms of the volumes of these manifolds. We find that the more complicated are the topology changes, the more likely are suppressed.

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