Topology Changes by Quantum Tunneling in Four Dimensions
arXiv:gr-qc/9409006 · doi:10.1016/0370-2693(95)00621-Q
Abstract
We investigate topology-changing processes in 4-dimensional quantum gravity with a negative cosmological constant. By playing the ``gluing-polytope game" in hyperbolic geometry, we explicitly construct an instanton-like solution without singularity. Because of cusps, this solution is non-compact but has a finite volume. Then we evaluate a topology change amplitude in the WKB approximation in terms of the volume of this solution.
13 pages revtex.sty, 6 uuencoded figures contained, TIT/HEP-260/COSMO-45