Quantum Creation of a Universe with Quasi-Hyperbolic Spatial Sections

2003/12/02 by Helio V. Fagundes, Fagundes, Helio V., T. Vargas +2
Mathematics · Physics and Astronomy · #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #FOS: Physical sciences #General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc) #advanced mathematical theories #gr-qc

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.gr-qc/0312018

5 pages. Contribution to the XXIV National Meeting on the Physics of Particles and Fields, Caxambu, Brazil (2003)

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Abstract

We calculate the probability of creation of a universe with space topology S¹× T_g, where S¹ is the circle and T_g is a compact hyperbolic surface of genus g≥ 2. We use the method of path integrals as applied to quantum cosmology.

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