Abstract
Euclidean wormholes are obtained by the analytic continuation of closed recollapsing Friedmann-Robertson-Walker universes. We demonstrate this for a perfect fluid satisfying the strong energy condition. The quantum versions of such wormholes are consistent with the Hawking-Page (HP) conjecture for quantum wormholes as solutions of the Wheeler-DeWitt equation. We contrast this with a classical change of signature approach which, although might be consistent with the existence of classical wormholes for a given definition of the energy-momentum tensor of the fluid, upon quantization gives everywhere oscillatory wave functions which do not satisfy the HP conjecture.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 1453-1465 |
| Number of pages | 13 |
| Journal | Modern Physics Letters A |
| Volume | 11 |
| Issue number | 18 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 1996 |
| Externally published | Yes |
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