  The aim of this work is to provided the details of a calculation summarized
in the recent paper by Maltz and Susskind which conjectured a potentially
rigorous framework where the status of de Sitter space is the same as that of a
resonance in a scattering process. The conjecture being that transition
amplitudes between certain states with asymptotically supersymmetric flat vacua
contain resonant poles characteristic metastable intermediate states. A
calculation employing constrained instantons is presented that illustrates this
idea.
