Noise-induced inflation

DOI10.1023/A:1026687527635MaRDI QIDQ1972083zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Esteban Calzetta

Publication date 17 July 2001

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9811069

zbMATH Keywords

early-universe cosmologyquantum tunneling processsuperconducting cosmic strings

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum field theory on curved space or space-time backgrounds (81T20) String and superstring theories in gravitational theory (83E30) Relativistic cosmology (83F05)

Abstract: We consider a closed Friedmann-Robertson-Walker Universe driven by the back reaction from a massless, non-conformally coupled quantum scalar field. We show that the back-reaction of the quantum field is able to drive the cosmological scale factor over the barrier of the classical potential so that if the universe starts near zero scale factor (initial singularity) it can make the transition to an exponentially expanding de Sitter phase, with a probability comparable to that from quantum tunneling processes. The emphasis throughout is on the stochastic nature of back reaction, which comes from the quantum fluctuations of the fundamental fields.

Review text

The paper under review is concerned with early-universe cosmology. It deals with a model of a spatially closed Friedman-Robertson-Walker universe [\textit{N. D. Birrell} and \textit{P. C. W. Davies}, Quantum fields in curved space, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge (1982; Zbl 0476.53017); \textit{S. W. Hawking} and \textit{G. F. R. Ellis}, The large scale structure of spacetime, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge (1973; Zbl 0265.53054); \textit{D.-E. Liebscher}, Einsteins Relativitätstheorie und die Geometrie der Ebene, B.G. Teubner, Stuttgart, Leipzig (1999)] driven by the backreaction from a massless, non-conformally coupled quantum scalar field. It is established that the backreaction of the quantized matter fields is able to drive the cosmological scale factor over the barrier of the classical potential so that if the universe starts near zero scale factor it can make the transition from the initial singularity to an exponentially expanding de Sitter phase with a probability comparable to that from quantum tunneling process. Without outlining the details of the cosmological process, the paper emphasizes the stochastic character of the backreaction which originates from the quantum fluctuations of the fundamental fields [\textit{S. Coleman, J. Hartle, T. Piran}, and \textit{S. Weinberg} (eds.), Quantum Cosmology and Baby Universes, World Scientific, Singapore (1991)].

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