Dimensionality, topology, energy, the cosmological constant and signature change

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/13/5/012MaRDI QIDQ4881533zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Franz Embacher

Publication date 9 March 1997

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9504040

zbMATH Keywords

Einstein equationssignature changenucleation energytopology of spacetimeLorentzian phaseproducts of round spheres

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Methods of quantum field theory in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C47) Kaluza-Klein and other higher-dimensional theories (83E15) Relativistic cosmology (83F05)

Abstract: Using the concept of real tunneling configurations (classical signature change) and nucleation energy, we explore the consequences of an alternative minimization procedure for the Euclidean action in multiple-dimensional quantum cosmology. In both standard Hartle-Hawking type as well as Coleman type wormhole-based approaches, it is suggested that the action should be minimized among configurations of equal energy. In a simplified model, allowing for arbitrary products of spheres as Euclidean solutions, the favoured space-time dimension is 4, the global topology of spacelike slices being $$ (hence predicting a universe of Kantowski-Sachs type). There is, however, some freedom for a Kaluza-Klein scenario, in which case the observed spacelike slices are $$. In this case, the internal space is a product of two-spheres, and the total space-time dimension is 6, 8, 10 or 12.

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