String Theory Seminar: Kristan Jensen (Victoria University) “On the norm of the Hartle-Hawking state in dS3 gravity”

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I will discuss some work in progress computing the norm of the Hartle-Hawking state in the simple model of pure three-dimensional gravity with positive cosmological constant. To one-loop order and including the contributions from universes with sphere boundaries in the far future, the result appears to be exp(|Z|) with Z the sphere partition function of 3d gravity.