On Gauss-Bonnet gravity and boundary conditions in Lorentzian path-integral quantization
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Publication:2048097
DOI10.1007/JHEP05(2021)273zbMATH Open1466.83085arXiv2101.04644OpenAlexW3169862541WikidataQ114233542 ScholiaQ114233542MaRDI QIDQ2048097
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Publication date: 4 August 2021
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Abstract: Recently there has been a surge of interest in studying Lorentzian quantum cosmology using Picard-Lefschetz methods. The present paper aims to explore the Lorentzian path-integral of Gauss-Bonnet gravity in four spacetime dimensions with metric as the field variable. We employ mini-superspace approximation and study the variational problem exploring different boundary conditions. It is seen that for mixed boundary conditions non-trivial effects arise from Gauss-Bonnet sector of gravity leading to additional saddle points for lapse in some case. As an application of this we consider the No-boundary proposal of the Universe with two different settings of boundary conditions, and compute the transition amplitude using Picard-Lefschetz formalism. In first case the transition amplitude is a superposition of a Lorentzian and a Euclidean geometrical configuration leading to interference incorporating non-perturbative effects coming from Gauss-Bonnet sector of gravity. In the second case involving complex initial momentum we note that the transition amplitude is an analogue of Hartle-Hawking wave-function with non-perturbative correction coming from Gauss-Bonnet sector of gravity.
Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.04644
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