Quantum Mechanical Lorentzian Wormholes in Cosmological Backgrounds

Details Quantum Mechanical Lorentzian Wormholes in Cosmological Backgrounds Quantum Mechanical Lorentzian Wormholes in Cosmological Backgrounds

1995-07-03

arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9507001v1

Phys.Rev. D52 (1995) 6846-6855

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

24 pages; Plain Latex

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevD.52.6846

We present a minisuperspace analysis of a class of Lorentzian wormholes that evolves quantum mechanically in a background Friedman Robertson Walker spacetime. The quantum mechanical wavefunction for these wormholes is obtained by solving the Wheeler-DeWitt equation for Einstein gravity on this minisuperspace. The time-dependent expectation value of the wormhole throat radius is calculated to lowest order in an adiabatic expansion of the Wheeler-DeWitt hamiltonian. For a radiation dominated expansion, the radius is shown to relax asymptotically to obtain a value of order the Planck length while for a deSitter background, the radius is stationary but always larger than the Planck length. These two cases are of particular relevance when considering wormholes in the early universe.

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