New axionic instantons in quantum gravity
- 15 August 1988
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review D
- Vol. 38 (4) , 1327-1330
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.38.1327
Abstract
New Euclidean solutions, describing the nucleation of a baby universe, are presented for an axion (described by an antisymmetric tensor field strength of rank D-1 in D dimensions) coupled to gravity including a cosmological constant.Keywords
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