Tufts/CfA/MIT Cosmology Seminar, at Tufts:

Tuesday, April 19, 2005
2:30 pm
Robinson Hall, Room 250
Refreshments at 2:00 in Knipp Library, Room 251

"Hartle-Hawking Wave function and String Theory"


Cumrun Vafa
Harvard University

Abstract:

An outstanding question in string theory is whether one can compare different vacua. In this talk I illustrate, concentrating on certain class of compactifications of string theory, how a notion of wave function of different vacua makes sense. This is related holographically to the black hole entropy.

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