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Issue Europhys. Lett.
Volume 49, Number 6, March 2000
Page(s) 814 - 820
Section Geophysics, astronomy, and astrophysics
DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.1209/epl/i2000-00224-x

DOI: 10.1209/epl/i2000-00224-x

Europhys. Lett., 49 (6), p. 814 (2000)

Quantum birth of the Universe in the varying
speed of light cosmologies

T. Harko 1 - H. Q. Lu 1,2 - M. K. Mak 1 - K. S. Cheng 1

1 Department of Physics, The University of Hong Kong
Pokfulam, Hong Kong, P. R. China
2 Department of Physics, The Shanghai University - Shanghai, P. R. China

(Received 20 August 1999; accepted in final form 6 January 2000)

PACS :
98.80.-k - Cosmology
98.80.Hw - Mathematical and relativistic aspects of cosmology; quantum cosmology

Abstract:

In the framework of the varying speed of light theory the Wheeler-DeWitt equation is considered in the minisuperspace approximation. The quantum potential is obtained and the tunneling probability is studied in both Vilenkin and Hartle-Hawking approaches.

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