Quantum generations of cosmological perturbations in generalized gravity

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/14/12/016zbMath0904.53066arXivgr-qc/9607059OpenAlexW2033436574MaRDI QIDQ3839466

Jai-chang Hwang

Publication date: 21 January 1999

Published in: Classical and Quantum Gravity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Recently, we presented a unified way of analysing classical cosmological perturbation in generalized gravity theories. In this paper, we derive the perturbation spectrums generated from quantum fluctuations again in unified forms. We consider a situation where an accelerated expansion phase of the early universe is realized in a particular generic phase of the generalized gravity. We take the perturbative semiclassical approximation which treats the perturbed parts of the metric and matter fields as quantum mechanical operators. Our generic results include the conventional power-law and exponential inflations in Einstein's gravity as special cases.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9607059

zbMATH Keywords

conformal transformationsgeneralized gravity theoriescosmological perturbationperturbative semiclassical approximation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Relativistic cosmology (83F05) Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Methods of quantum field theory in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C47) Relativistic gravitational theories other than Einstein's, including asymmetric field theories (83D05)

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