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Published March 15, 2006 | Submitted + Published
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Stringy wave function for an S^3 cosmology

Abstract

Using the recent observations of the relation between the Hartle-Hawking wave function and the topological string partition function, we propose a wave function for scalar metric fluctuations on S^3 embedded in a Calabi-Yau manifold. This problem maps to a study of noncritical bosonic string propagating on a circle at the self-dual radius. This can be viewed as a stringy toy model for a quantum cosmology.

Additional Information

© 2006 The American Physical Society. Received 20 January 2006; published 21 March 2006. We would like to thank N. Arkani-Hamed, R.Dijkgraaf, A. Neitzke, and H. Ooguri for valuable discussions. This research was supported in part by NSF Grants No. PHY-0244821 and No. DMS-0244464. K. S. and S. G. are also supported in part by RFBR Grant No. 04-02-16880.

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