Quantization conditions in curved spacetime and uncertainty-driven inflation

DOI10.1023/A:1003692530074zbMATH Open1019.81046arXiv1405.2146MaRDI QIDQ1590873FDOQ1590873

Authors: Paul J. Camp, John L. Safko 

Publication date: 1 January 2001

Published in: International Journal of Theoretical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: An alternative inflationary model is proposed predicated upon a consideration of the form of the uncertainty principle in a curved background spacetime. An argument is presented suggesting a possible curvature dependence in the correct commutator relations for a quantum field in a classical background which cannot be deduced by simply extrapolation from the flat spacetime theory. To assess the possible consequences of this dependence, we apply the idea to a scalar field in a closed Friedmann-Robertson-Walker background, using a simple model for the curvature dependence (along the way, a previous result obtained by Bunch (1980) for the adiabatically expanded wave function is corrected). The result is a time-dependent cosmological constant, producing a vast amount of inflation that is independent of the mass of the matter field or its effective potential. Furthermore, it is seen that the field modes are initially zero for all wavelengths and come into being as the universe evolves. In this sense, the universe creates its contents out of its own expansion. At the end of the process, the matter field is far from equilibrium and essentially reproduces the initial conditions for the New Inflationary Model.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1405.2146

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zbMATH Keywords

uncertainty principlescalar fieldinflationary modeltime-dependent cosmological constantclosed Friedmann-Robertson-Walker background

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum field theory on curved space or space-time backgrounds (81T20) Methods of quantum field theory in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C47) Relativistic cosmology (83F05)

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