A simplified quantum gravitational model of inflation

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/26/10/105006zbMATH Open1163.83370arXiv0807.5006OpenAlexW2025129042WikidataQ60154302 ScholiaQ60154302MaRDI QIDQ3631333FDOQ3631333

Authors: N. C. Tsamis, R. P. Woodard 

Publication date: 9 June 2009

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

Abstract: Inflationary quantum gravity simplifies drastically in the leading logarithm approximation. We show that the only counterterm which contributes in this limit is the 1-loop renormalization of the cosmological constant. We go further to make a simplifying assumption about the operator dynamics at leading logarithm order. This assumption is explicitly implemented at 1- and 2-loop orders, and we describe how it can be implemented nonperturbatively. We also compute the expectation value of an invariant observable designed to quantify the quantum gravitational back-reaction on inflation. Although our dynamical assumption may not prove to be completely correct, it does have the right time dependence, it can naturally produce primordial perturbations of the right strength, and it illustrates how a rigorous application of the leading logarithm approximation might work in quantum gravity. It also serves as a partial test of the "null hypothesis" that there are no significant effects from infrared gravitons.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0807.5006

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45) Relativistic cosmology (83F05)

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