Ooguri, Hirosi and Vafa, Cumrun and Verlinde, Erik (2005) Hartle-Hawking Wave-Function for Flux Compactifications: the Entropic Principle. Letters in Mathematical Physics, 74 (3). pp. 311-342. ISSN 0377-9017. doi:10.1007/s11005-005-0022-x. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20190927-133504041
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Abstract
We argue that the topological string partition function, which has been known to correspond to a wave-function, can be interpreted as an exact “wave-function of the universe” in the mini-superspace sector of physical superstring theory. This realizes the idea of Hartle and Hawking in the context of string theory, including all loop quantum corrections. The mini-superspace approximation is justified as an exact description of BPS quantities. Moreover this proposal leads to a conceptual explanation of the recent observation that the black hole entropy is the square of the topological string wave-function. This wave-function can be interpreted in the context of flux compactification of all spatial dimensions as providing a physical probability distribution on the moduli space of string compactification. Euclidean time is realized holographically in this setup.
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Additional Information: | © Springer 2005. (Received: 21 March 2005) We would like to thank F. Denef, R. Dijkgraaf, G. Gibbons, R. Gopakumar, S. Gukov, G. Mandal, S. Minwalla, L. Motl, A. Neitzke, J. Preskill, A. Strominger, and L. Susskind for useful discussions. The research of H.O. was supported in part by DOE grant DE-FG03-92-ER40701. The research of C.V. was supported in part by NSF grants PHY-0244821 and DMS-0244464. | ||||||||||||
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Subject Keywords: | topological string, mini-superspace, black hole, BPS state | ||||||||||||
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Issue or Number: | 3 | ||||||||||||
Classification Code: | Mathematics Subject Classifications. 81T20, 83C47, 83E30 | ||||||||||||
DOI: | 10.1007/s11005-005-0022-x | ||||||||||||
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Official Citation: | Ooguri, H., Vafa, C. & Verlinde, E. Lett Math Phys (2005) 74: 311. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11005-005-0022-x | ||||||||||||
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Deposited By: | George Porter | ||||||||||||
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