Space-time is four-dimensional

DOI10.1007/BF00773627MaRDI QIDQ1060721zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Zhong Chao Wu

Publication date 1985

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

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00773627

zbMATH Keywords

gravitational instantonKaluza-Klein modelsquantum state of the universespace-timesupergravity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of global differential geometry to the sciences (53C80) Kaluza-Klein and other higher-dimensional theories (83E15) Supergravity (83E50)

Review text

The quantum state of the universe is described by Hartle and Hawking's ground state which is defined by a path integral over all compact metrics. The most probable classical evolution of the universe can be considered to come from some gravitational instanton by a quantum tunneling. These arguments have been generalized to the case of Kaluza- Klein models. It is found that in \(d=11\) simple supergravity, with a minisuperspace ansatz, all instantons must have a four dimensional sector. It suggests that this is the main reason why space-time is four- dimensional.

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