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**Physics Note****Published**

# **Topology Change in Canonical Quantum Cosmology**

**V. A. Lorenci; J. Martin; Nelson Pinto Neto; Ivano Damião Soares**

1997

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## **Publication details**

<dl>

<dt>Authors</dt>
<dd>V. A. Lorenci; J. Martin; Nelson Pinto Neto; Ivano Damião Soares</dd>

<dt>Type</dt>
<dd>Physics Note</dd>

<dt>Status</dt>
<dd>Published</dd>

<dt>Publication date</dt>
<dd>1997</dd>

<dt>Description</dt>
<dd>We develop the canonical quantization of a midisuperspace model which contains, as a subspace, a minisuperspace constituted of a Friedman-Lemaître-Robertson-Walker Uni- verse filled with homogeneous scalar and dust fields, where the sign of the intrinsic curvature of the spacelike hypersurfaces of homo- geneity is not specified, allowing the study of topology change in these hypersurfaces. We solve the Wheeler-DeWitt equation of the midisuperspace model restricted to this minisuperspace subspace in the semi-classical approximation. Adopting the conditional probability interpretation, we find that some of the solutions present change of topology of the homogeneous hypersurfaces. However, this result depends crucially on the interpretation we adopt:using the usual probabilistic interpretation, we find selection rules which forbid some of these topology changes.</dd>

<dt>Year</dt>
<dd>1997</dd>

<dt>Number</dt>
<dd>CBPF-NF-002/97</dd>

<dt>Linked to a thesis</dt>
<dd>No</dd>

<dt>Linked to a grant</dt>
<dd>No</dd>

</dl>

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