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What if? Exploring the multiverse through Euclidean wormholes

We present Euclidean wormhole solutions describing possible bridges within the multiverse. The study is carried out in the framework of third quantisation. The matter content is modelled through a scalar field which supports the existence of a whole collection of universes. The instanton solutions d...

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Autores principales: Bouhmadi-López, Mariam, Krämer, Manuel, Morais, João, Robles-Pérez, Salvador
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5660845/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29142504
http://dx.doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-017-5279-6
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author Bouhmadi-López, Mariam
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Morais, João
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description We present Euclidean wormhole solutions describing possible bridges within the multiverse. The study is carried out in the framework of third quantisation. The matter content is modelled through a scalar field which supports the existence of a whole collection of universes. The instanton solutions describe Euclidean solutions that connect baby universes with asymptotically de Sitter universes. We compute the tunnelling probability of these processes. Considering the current bounds on the energy scale of inflation and assuming that all the baby universes are nucleated with the same probability, we draw some conclusions about which universes are more likely to tunnel and therefore undergo a standard inflationary era.
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spelling pubmed-56608452017-11-13 What if? Exploring the multiverse through Euclidean wormholes Bouhmadi-López, Mariam Krämer, Manuel Morais, João Robles-Pérez, Salvador Eur Phys J C Part Fields Regular Article - Theoretical Physics We present Euclidean wormhole solutions describing possible bridges within the multiverse. The study is carried out in the framework of third quantisation. The matter content is modelled through a scalar field which supports the existence of a whole collection of universes. The instanton solutions describe Euclidean solutions that connect baby universes with asymptotically de Sitter universes. We compute the tunnelling probability of these processes. Considering the current bounds on the energy scale of inflation and assuming that all the baby universes are nucleated with the same probability, we draw some conclusions about which universes are more likely to tunnel and therefore undergo a standard inflationary era. Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2017-10-28 2017 /pmc/articles/PMC5660845/ /pubmed/29142504 http://dx.doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-017-5279-6 Text en © The Author(s) 2017 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. Funded by SCOAP3
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