Stability of flat space to singular instantons

DOI10.1016/S0370-2693(99)00587-0MaRDI QIDQ5934542zbMATH OpenWikidataFDO

Authors N. Turok

Publication date 7 May 2001

Published in Physics Letters B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9901079

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45)

Abstract: Hawking and the author have proposed a class of singular, finite action instantons for defining the initial conditions for inflation. Vilenkin has argued they are unacceptable. He exhibited an analogous class of asymptotically flat instantons which on the face of it lead to an instability of Minkowski space. However, all these instantons must be defined by introducing a constraint into the path integral, which is then integrated over. I show that with a careful definition these instantons do not possess a negative mode. Infinite flat space is therefore stable against decay via singular instantons.

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