On the Hawking Turok solution to the Open Universe wave function
Abstract
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Hawking and Turok have recently published a solution to the WKB "wave-function for the universe" which they claim leads in a natural way to an open universe as the end point of the evolution for a universe dominated by a scalar field. They furthermore argue that their solution a preferred solution under the rules of the game. This paper will, I hope, clarify their solution and the limits of validity of their argument.
8pp, 1 figure
8pp, 1 figure