Quantum generation of Schwarzschild-de Sitter (Nariai) black holes in effective dilaton-Maxwell gravity

Dilaton coupled electromagnetic field is essential element of low-energy string effective action or it may be considered as result of spherical compactification of Maxwell theory in higher dimensions. The large N and large curvature effective action for N dilaton coupled vectors is calculated, Adding such quantum correction to classical dilaton gravity action we show that effective dilaton-Maxwell gravity under consideration may generate Schwarzschild-de Sitter black holes (SdS BHs) with constant dilaton as solutions of the theory. That suggests a mechanism (alternative to BHs production) for quantum generation of SdS BHs in early universe (actually, for quantum creation of inflationary Universe) due to back-reaction of dilaton coupled matter. The possibility of proliferation of anti-de Sitter space is briefly discussed. (C) 1998 Published by Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.