Bubbles from nothing

Jose J. Blanco-Pillado, Handhika Satrio Ramadhan, Benjamin Shlaer

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Abstract

Within the framework of flux compactifications, we construct an instanton describing the quantum creation of an open universe from nothing. The solution has many features in common with the smooth 6d bubble of nothing solutions discussed recently, where the spacetime is described by a 4d compactification of a 6d Einstein-Maxwell theory on S 2 stabilized by flux. The four-dimensional description of this instanton reduces to that of Hawking and Turok. The choice of parameters uniquely determines all future evolution, which we additionally find to be stable against bubble of nothing instabilities.

Original languageEnglish
Article number045
JournalJournal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
Volume2012
Issue number1
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Jan 2012

Keywords

  • cosmology with extra dimensions
  • extra dimensions
  • quantum cosmology
  • string theory and cosmology

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