Abstract:The Euclidean quantum amplitude to go between data specified on an initial and a final hypersurface may be approximated by the tree amplitudewhere I classical is the Euclidean action of the classical solution joining the initial and final data. In certain cases the tree amplitude is exact. We study I classical , and hence the quantum amplitude, in the case of a spherically symmetric Riemannian gravitational field coupled to a spherically symmetric scalar field. The classical scalar field obeys an elliptic equa… Show more
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