THE GROUND-STATE WAVE-FUNCTION OF A RADIATION-DOMINATED UNIVERSE

• Type: Article in International Scientific Journal
• Date: 1991

Authors

Bertolami, O (Author) Other; MOURAO, JM (Author) Other

Journal

Title: Classical and Quantum Gravity

Vol. 8

Pages: 1271-1282

ISSN: 0264-9381

Publisher: Institute of Physics Publishing

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Authenticus ID: P-001-QKR

DOI: 10.1088/0264-9381/8/7/005

Abstract (EN): We propose a minisuperspace construction of the ground-state (no boundary) wavefunction for a radiation-dominated universe. As in the case of a free massless conformally invariant scalar field discussed by Hartle and Hawking, the functional integrations over the gravitational and gauge fields can be performed independently. The gauge part of the wavefunction is semiclassically computed with the help of the (anti-)selfdual solutions of the Euclideanized SO(4)-symmetric Einstein-Yang-Mills (EYM) systems. Implications of our construction are discussed.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific

No. of pages: 12