Quantum Creation of a Universe with Quasi-Hyperbolic Spatial Sections

Abstract

We calculate the probability of creation of a universe with space topology $S^1\times T_g$, where $S^1$ is the circle and $T_g$ is a compact hyperbolic surface of genus $g\ge 2$. We use the method of path integrals as applied to quantum cosmology.

5 pages. Contribution to the XXIV National Meeting on the Physics of Particles and Fields, Caxambu, Brazil (2003)