Gravitational Constrained Instantons
arXiv:2010.02241 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.104.L081501
Abstract
We find constrained instantons in Einstein gravity with and without a cosmological constant. These configurations are not saddle points of the Einstein-Hilbert action, yet they contribute to non-perturbative processes in quantum gravity. In some cases we expect that they give the dominant contribution from spacetimes with certain fixed topologies. With negative cosmological constant, these metrics describe wormholes connecting two asymptotic regions. We find many examples of such wormhole metrics and for certain symmetric configurations establish their perturbative stability. We expect that the Euclidean versions of these wormholes encode the energy level statistics of AdS black hole microstates. In the de Sitter and flat space settings we find new homogeneous and isotropic bounce and big bang/crunch cosmologies.
arXiv comment6+10 pages, 1 figure; v2: improved discussion of constrained instantons, fixes in proof of perturbative stability
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