Truly Lorentzian quantum cosmology. II. Exact formula and effective geometries
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Title: Truly Lorentzian quantum cosmology. II. Exact formula and effective geometries
Author: Ding Jia
Abstract: We derive a closed-form expression for the path integral over Lorentzian metrics in the homogeneous and isotropic minisuperspace setting. The result corrects many previous works by a reflection term, which is a weighted product of a path integral from the initial boundary value to zero, times a path integral from zero to the final boundary value. As an implication, we can now continue Einstein’s equation through singularities at the level of effective classical geometries. To achieve this, the Einstein-Hilbert action and a sum over Lorentzian metrics is all one needs.
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