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Inner products and closed universes

  • Jordan Cotler
  • Kristan Jensen
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Abstract

We study overlaps of late-time states in semiclassical de Sitter quantum gravity. In a family of deformations of de Sitter JT gravity, we compute the no-boundary wavefunction to one-loop and derive the ultralocal late-time measure. The one-universe contribution to the norm is exactly eight times the sphere amplitude, so the pairing used by the Lorentzian measure differs from that implicit in Euclidean gravity. After summing over disconnected final universes, the no-boundary norm exponentiates the one-universe result, giving ⟨ ⟨ HH|HH⟩ ⟩ ≈ exp(4Zsphere) rather than the sum over closed geometries, Zclosed≈ exp(Zsphere). We also review an analogous mismatch in Einstein gravity with positive cosmological constant, where the late-time no-boundary norm vanishes at one-loop, differing from the Euclidean sphere amplitude. We discuss the implications for cutting and gluing in perturbative gravity, and features that arise when extending this construction to sums over topologies.

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@misc{cotler2026inner,
  title = {{Inner products and closed universes}},
  author = {Jordan Cotler and Kristan Jensen},
  howpublished = {arXiv},
  year = {2026},
  month = oct,
  doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2608.26253},
  eprint = {2608.26253},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.26253},
}
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TY  - UNPB
TI  - Inner products and closed universes
AU  - Jordan Cotler
AU  - Kristan Jensen
PY  - 2026
DA  - 2026/10/07
PB  - arXiv
DO  - 10.48550/arxiv.2608.26253
UR  - https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.26253
AB  - We study overlaps of late-time states in semiclassical de Sitter quantum gravity. In a family of deformations of de Sitter JT gravity, we compute the no-boundary wavefunction to one-loop and derive the ultralocal late-time measure. The one-universe contribution to the norm is exactly eight times the sphere amplitude, so the pairing used by the Lorentzian measure differs from that implicit in Euclidean gravity. After summing over disconnected final universes, the no-boundary norm exponentiates the one-universe result, giving ⟨ ⟨ HH|HH⟩ ⟩ ≈ exp(4Z_sphere) rather than the sum over closed geometries, Z_closed≈ exp(Z_sphere). We also review an analogous mismatch in Einstein gravity with positive cosmological constant, where the late-time no-boundary norm vanishes at one-loop, differing from the Euclidean sphere amplitude. We discuss the implications for cutting and gluing in perturbative gravity, and features that arise when extending this construction to sums over topologies.
ER  -