Classical and quantum wormholes with perfect fluids and scalar fields

A. Carlini, D. H. Coule, D. M. Solomons

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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.

Lingua originaleInglese
pagine (da-a)1453-1465
Numero di pagine13
RivistaModern Physics Letters A
Volume11
Numero di pubblicazione18
DOI
Stato di pubblicazionePubblicato - 1996
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