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Euclideanized Einstein-Yang-Mills equations, wormholes and the ground-state wave function of a radiation dominated Universe

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SO(4)-symmetric (anti-)selfdual solutions of euclideanized Yang-Mills equations are used for constructing the ground-state wave function of the Universe. We discuss also SO(4)-symmetric wormhole solutions of Einstein-Yang-Mills systems and some physical implications of our minisuperspace ground-state wave function of the Universe.

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  1. Centro de Física da Matéria Condensada, Av. Prof. Gama Pinto 2, 1699, Lisboa Codex, Portugal

    O. Bertolami

  2. Centro de Física Nuclear, Av. Prof. Gama Pinto 2, 1699, Lisboa Codex, Portugal

    J. M. Mourão

  3. Departamento de Física, Instituto Superior Técnico, Av. Rovisco Pais, 1000, Lisboa, Portugal

    J. M. Mourão

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Bertolami, O., Mourão, J.M. (1991). Euclideanized Einstein-Yang-Mills equations, wormholes and the ground-state wave function of a radiation dominated Universe. In: Barrow, J.D., Henriques, A.B., Lago, M.T.V.T., Longair, M.S. (eds) The Physical Universe: The Interface Between Cosmology, Astrophysics and Particle Physics. Lecture Notes in Physics, vol 383. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-54293-0_20

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