Signs and cosmology

DOI10.1142/S0218271812420084MaRDI QIDQ4919702zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Arundhati Dasgupta, Adamantia Zampeli

Publication date 15 May 2013

Published in International Journal of Modern Physics D (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1205.3800

zbMATH Keywords

quantum gravitycosmologyWKBWentzel-Kramers-Brillouinphantom scalar fieldssemi-classical WKB approximation for quantum cosmology

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum field theory on curved space or space-time backgrounds (81T20) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45) Relativistic cosmology (83F05)

Abstract: Using a new effective action predicted from quantum gravity where the sign of the Euclidean Einstein action is reversed we discuss WKB solutions in quantum cosmology and predict that this sign change might explain the origin of phantom scalars.

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• A proper-time cure for the conformal sickness in quantum gravity
• The gravitational path integral and the trace of the diffeomorphisms
• The path integral measure, conformal factor problem and stability of the ground state of quantum gravity

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