Large N-wormhole approach to spacetime foam

被引:10
作者
Garattini, R
机构
[1] Univ Mons, Fac Sci, B-7000 Mons, Belgium
[2] Univ Bergamo, Fac Ingn, I-24044 Bergamo, Italy
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10.1016/S0370-2693(98)01490-7
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P1 [天文学];
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0704 ;
摘要
A simple model of spacetime foam, made by N wormholes in a semiclassical approximation, is taken under examination. We show that the qualitative behaviour of the fluctuation of the metric conjectured by Wheeler is here reproduced. (C) 1999 Published by Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
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页码:135 / 142
页数:8
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