Issue |
Europhys. Lett.
Volume 49, Number 6, March 2000
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Page(s) | 814 - 820 | |
Section | Geophysics, astronomy, and astrophysics | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/epl/i2000-00224-x | |
Published online | 01 September 2002 |
Quantum birth of the Universe in the varying speed of light cosmologies
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:
6
January
2000
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.
PACS: 98.80.-k – Cosmology / 98.80.Hw – Mathematical and relativistic aspects of cosmology; quantum cosmology
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