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Peaks in the Hartle-Hawking Wave Function from Sums over Topologies

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arxiv gr-qc/0310002 v3 pith:A5XVP5YK submitted 2003-10-01 gr-qc astro-phhep-th

Peaks in the Hartle-Hawking Wave Function from Sums over Topologies

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keywords peakstopologiesconstanteinsteinfunctionhartle-hawkingmanynegative
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Recent developments in ``Einstein Dehn filling'' allow the construction of infinitely many Einstein manifolds that have different topologies but are geometrically close to each other. Using these results, we show that for many spatial topologies, the Hartle-Hawking wave function for a spacetime with a negative cosmological constant develops sharp peaks at certain calculable geometries. The peaks we find are all centered on spatial metrics of constant negative curvature, suggesting a new mechanism for obtaining local homogeneity in quantum cosmology.

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