Published May 15, 1989 | Version v1
Journal article

Consistency of quantum cosmology for models of plane symmetry

  • 1. Department of Physics, Oakland University, Rochester, Michigan 48309
  • 2. Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, P.O. Box 4349, Stanford, California 94309 (USA)

Description

The consistency of a D-dimensional quantum cosmology with (D-2)-dimensional plane symmetry is studied. For this class of models, it is shown that the effective Lagrangian in a minisuperspace for the D-dimensional Einstein Lagrangian has a form closely related to that for the bosonic string theory. In a restricted class of models, it has exactly the same form as that for the bosonic string theory, from which it is derived that the maximum number of space-time dimensions in the quantized model must be D=29

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Journal Title
Physical Review, D
Journal Volume
39
Journal Issue
10
Series
Phys. Rev., D.
Journal Page Range
2875-2881
ISSN
0556-2821
CODEN
PRVDA