Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2001-06-22
Nucl.Phys. B619 (2001) 646-666
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
12 pages, RevTex, 1 figure incorporated
Scientific paper
10.1016/S0550-3213(01)00523-5
This paper implements the idea of considering the instantonic creation of brane worlds whose five-dimensional bulk contains a negative cosmological constant and a scalar quintessence field with time-dependent equation of state, restricting to the case that the quintessence field couples minimally to Hilbert-Einstein gravity. We construct an Euclidean formalism, both for the four- and five-dimensional cases, singling out a Hamiltonian constraint that depends on the parameter defining the quintessence state equation. Specializing at several particular values of that parameter, we obtain solutions to the constraint equation and analyse them both classically and quantum mechanically. It is found that these solutions can represent either asymptotically anti-de Sitter wormholes or pure anti-de Sitter spaces whose quantum states are obtained by means of the Wheeler de Witt equation. Starting with the different five-dimensional solutions, an instantonic procedure is applied to describe the creation of geometrically equivalent inflating de Sitter branes whose quantum states are also evaluated in some cases. We thus consider the quantum state of the universe to be contributed by all the instantonic paths that correspond to these particular brane worlds.
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