Birth of the Universe as quantum scattering in string cosmology

Preprint

18 February 1996

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Published by arXiv in arXiv

https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.hep-th/9602096

Abstract

In a Wheeler-de Witt approach to quantum string cosmology, the present state of the Universe arises from the scattering and reflection of the wave function representing the initial string vacuum in superspace. This scenario is described and compared with the more conventional quantum cosmology picture, in which the birth of the Universe is represented as a process of tunnelling "from nothing" in superspace.

Keywords

QUANTUM SCATTERING
STRING COSMOLOGY
SUPERSPACE
TUNNELLING
SCATTERING
WHEELER
VACUUM
BIRTH

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Version 1, 1996-02-18, ArXiv
Published version: General Relativity and Gravitation, 28 (11), 1301.

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