Stochastic approach to tunneling and baby universe formation

1991/10/15 by Andrei Linde · 9 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Advanced Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics #Big Rip #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Cosmology #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #Coupling (piping) #Dark energy #De Sitter universe #Metric expansion of space #Physics #Quantum mechanics #Quantum tunnelling #Steady State theory #Theoretical physics #Universe #hep-th

paper · pdf · doi:10.1016/0550-3213(92)90326-7

published as Nucl.Phys.B372:421-442,1992 · 20 pages

arxiv created 1991/10/15 · openalex publication_date 1992/03/01 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30 · openalex created_date 2017/05/26 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05

Abstract

We develop a stochastic approach to the theory of tunneling with the baby universe formation. This method is applied also to the theory of creation of the universe in a laboratory.

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