Quantum cosmological consistency condition for inflation

被引：9

作者：

Calcagni, Gianluca ^{[1
]}

Kiefer, Claus ^{[2
]}

Steinwachs, Christian F. ^{[3
]}

机构：

[1] CSIC, Inst Estruct Mat, E-28006 Madrid, Spain

[2] Univ Cologne, Inst Theoret Phys, D-50937 Cologne, Germany

[3] Univ Freiburg, Inst Phys, D-79104 Freiburg, Germany

来源：

JOURNAL OF COSMOLOGY AND ASTROPARTICLE PHYSICS | 2014年 / 10期

关键词：

inflation; quantum cosmology; MODEL HIGGS-BOSON; CREATION; ORIGIN; PERTURBATIONS; FLUCTUATIONS; RENORMALIZATION; DECOHERENCE; GENERATION; UNIVERSE; SCALE;

D O I：

10.1088/1475-7516/2014/10/026

中图分类号：

P1 [天文学];

学科分类号：

0704 ;

摘要：

We investigate the quantum cosmological tunneling scenario for inflationary models. Within a path-integral approach, we derive the corresponding tunneling probability distribution. A sharp peak in this distribution can be interpreted as the initial condition for inflation and therefore as a quantum cosmological prediction for its energy scale. This energy scale is also a genuine prediction of any inflationary model by itself, as the primordial gravitons generated during inflation leave their imprint in the B-polarization of the cosmic microwave background. In this way, one can derive a consistency condition for inflationary models that guarantees compatibility with a tunneling origin and can lead to a testable quantum cosmological prediction. The general method is demonstrated explicitly for the model of natural inflation.

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