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Resolving the singularity of the Hawking-Turok type instanton

Takeshi Chiba

gr-qcarXiv:gr-qc/9810002

Abstract

We point out that the singular instanton of Hawking-Turok type, in which the singularity occurs due to the divergence of a massless scalar field, can be generated by Euclideanized regular p-brane solutions in string (or M-) theory upon compactification to four dimensions.

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