Geodesic family of spherical instantons and cosmic quantum creation

DOI10.1007/S10714-015-1946-9zbMATH Open1327.83052arXiv1509.04474OpenAlexW3100528740MaRDI QIDQ747952FDOQ747952

Authors: Ramon Lapiedra, Juan Antonio Morales-Lladosa 

Publication date: 19 October 2015

Published in: General Relativity and Gravitation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The Einstein field equations for any spherically symmetric metric and a geodesic perfect fluid source are cast in a canonical simple form, both for Lorentzian metrics and for instantons. Both kinds of metrics are explicitly written for the Lema{^{i}}tre-Tolman-Bondi family and for a general $Lambda$-Friedmann-Lema{^{i}}tre-Robertson-Walker universe. In the latter case (including of course the instanton version) we study whether the probability of quantum creation of our Universe vanishes or not. It is found, in accordance with previous results, that only the closed model can have a nonzero probability for quantum creation. To obtain this result, we resort to general assumptions, which are satisfied in the particular creation case considered by Vilenkin. On the other hand, Fomin and Tryon suggested that the energy of a quantically creatable universe should vanish. This is in accordance with the above result in which only the closed $Lambda$FLRW model is quantically creatable while the open and flat models are not. That is so since it can be seen that this closed model has vanishing energy while the open model and the limiting flat case (suitably perturbed) have both infinite energy.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1509.04474

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zbMATH Keywords

spherical symmetryinstanton metricsLTB metrics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Equations of motion in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C10) Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Exact solutions to problems in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C15) Methods of quantum field theory in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C47) Relativistic cosmology (83F05)

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