Asymptotically anti-de Sitter wormholes
Starting with a procedure for dealing with general asymptotic behavior, we construct a quantum theory for asymptotically anti-de Sitter wormholes. We follow both the path integral formalism and the algebraic quantization program proposed by Ashtekar. By adding suitable surface terms, the Euclidean a...
| Autores: | , , , |
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Fecha de publicación: | 1996 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC) |
| Repositorio: | DIGITAL.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:digital.csic.es:10261/102641 |
| Acceso en línea: | http://hdl.handle.net/10261/102641 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | [PACS] Canonical quantization minisuperspace models [PACS] Covariant and sum-over-histories quantization [PACS] Mathematical and relativistic aspects of cosmology Quantum cosmology [PACS] Lower dimensional models |
| Sumario: | Starting with a procedure for dealing with general asymptotic behavior, we construct a quantum theory for asymptotically anti-de Sitter wormholes. We follow both the path integral formalism and the algebraic quantization program proposed by Ashtekar. By adding suitable surface terms, the Euclidean action of the asymptoically anti-de Sitter wormholes can be seen to be finite and gauge invariant. This action determines an appropriate variational problem for wormholes. We also obtain the wormhole wave functions of the gravitational model and show that all the physical states of the quantum theory are superpositions of wormhole states. © 1996 The American Physical Society |
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