Harmonic cosmology: how much can we know about a universe before the big bang?

DOI10.1098/RSPA.2008.0050zbMATH Open1145.83358OpenAlexW3105051677MaRDI QIDQ3531346FDOQ3531346

Authors: Martin Bojowald 

Publication date: 23 October 2008

Published in: Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Quantum gravity may remove classical space-time singularities and thus reveal what a universe at and before the big bang could be like. In loop quantum cosmology, an exactly solvable model is available which allows one to address precise dynamical coherent states and their evolution in such a setting. It is shown here that quantum fluctuations before the big bang are generically unrelated to those after the big bang. A reliable determination of pre-big bang quantum fluctuations would require exceedingly precise observations.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0710.4919

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zbMATH Keywords

quantum gravitycosmologydynamical coherent states

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Gravitational interaction in quantum theory (81V17) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45) Relativistic cosmology (83F05)

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