Inhomogeneities from quantum collapse scheme without inflation

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSLETB.2015.03.016zbMATH Open1343.83050arXiv1410.4212OpenAlexW2011394112MaRDI QIDQ304358FDOQ304358

Authors: Gabriel Bengochea, Pedro Cañate, Daniel Sudarsky 

Publication date: 25 August 2016

Published in: Physics Letters B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In this work, we consider the problem of the emergence of seeds of cosmic structure in the framework of the non-inflationary model proposed by Hollands and Wald. In particular, we consider a modification to that proposal designed to account for breaking the symmetries of the initial quantum state, leading to the generation of the primordial inhomogeneities. This new ingredient is described in terms of a spontaneous reduction of the wave function. We investigate under which conditions one can recover an essentially scale free spectrum of primordial inhomogeneities, and which are the dominant deviations that arise in the model as a consequence of the introduction of the collapse of the quantum state into that scenario.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1410.4212

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zbMATH Keywords

cosmologyinflationnon-inflationary modelsquantum collapse schemes

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Macroscopic interaction of the gravitational field with matter (hydrodynamics, etc.) (83C55) Relativistic cosmology (83F05)

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