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Tunnelling with wormhole creation

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Contribution for the JETP special issue in honor of V.A.Rubakov’s 60th birthday

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The description of quantum tunnelling in the presence of gravity shows subtleties in some cases. We discuss wormhole production in the context of the spherically symmetric thin-shell approximation. By presenting a fully consistent treatment based on canonical quantization, we solve a controversy present in the literature.

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  1. National Institute of Nuclear Physics (INFN), Trieste, 1-34149, Italy

    S. Ansoldi

  2. University of Udine, Udine, 1-33100, Italy

    S. Ansoldi

  3. Department of Physics, Kyoto University, Kyoto, 606-8502, Japan

    T. Tanaka

  4. Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kyoto University, Kyoto, 606-8502, Japan

    T. Tanaka

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Ansoldi, S., Tanaka, T. Tunnelling with wormhole creation. J. Exp. Theor. Phys. 120, 460–469 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063776115030139

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