Comments on the multi-dimensional Wheeler-DeWitt equation

Abstract

It is argued heuristically -- using an ${\mathbf{S}}^3\times {\mathbf{S}}^6$ minisuperspace model -- that there might be a fundamental quantum gravity effect stabilizing internal spaces with non-vanishing Ricci curvature.

16 pages, LaTex. 6 Figures are available on request as hard copies. (Talk given at the International School-Seminar "Multidimensional Gravity and Cosmology", Yaroslavl, June 20-26, 1994.) University Vienna preprint UWThPh-1994-36

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