Stringy wave function for an S3 cosmology
Abstract
Using the recent observations of the relation between the Hartle-Hawking wave function and the topological string partition function, we propose a wave function for scalar metric fluctuations on S3 embedded in a Calabi-Yau manifold. This problem maps to a study of noncritical bosonic string propagating on a circle at the self-dual radius. This can be viewed as a stringy toy model for a quantum cosmology.
- Publication:
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Physical Review D
- Pub Date:
- March 2006
- DOI:
- arXiv:
- arXiv:hep-th/0505204
- Bibcode:
- 2006PhRvD..73f6009G
- Keywords:
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- 11.25.Mj;
- 04.70.-s;
- Compactification and four-dimensional models;
- Physics of black holes;
- High Energy Physics - Theory
- E-Print:
- 21 pages, 3 figures, harvmac