Published July 1986
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Journal article
Barrier penetration and initial values in Kaluza-Klein theories
Description
Topology change is discussed as a barrier penetration process and illustrated by explicit calculations in Witten's Kaluza-Klein bubble geometry. Initial values are given for other bubble geometries, including ones with negative total mass
Additional details
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Found. Phys.
- Journal Volume
- 16
- Journal Issue
- 7
- Series
- Found. Phys.
- Journal Page Range
- 637-649
- ISSN
- 0015-9018
- CODEN
- FNDPA
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United States
- Country of Input or Organization
- United States
- INIS RN
- 18034175
- Subject category
- S79: ASTROPHYSICS, COSMOLOGY AND ASTRONOMY;
- Descriptors DEI
- BUBBLES; CURVILINEAR COORDINATES; FIELD EQUATIONS; GENERAL RELATIVITY THEORY; GRAVITATIONAL WAVES; KALUZA-KLEIN THEORY; MANY-DIMENSIONAL CALCULATIONS; PARTICLE MODELS; QUANTUM GRAVITY; SCALAR FIELDS; SCHWARZSCHILD METRIC; SPACE-TIME; TOPOLOGY; TRANSPORT THEORY; VACUUM STATES; WAVE PACKETS
- Descriptors DEC
- COORDINATES; EQUATIONS; FIELD THEORIES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATHEMATICS; METRICS; QUANTUM FIELD THEORY; UNIFIED-FIELD THEORIES