Perturbation spectra and renormalization-group techniques in double-field inflation and quantum gravity cosmology

DOI10.1088/1475-7516/2021/07/037zbMATH Open1485.83096arXiv2105.05864OpenAlexW3162093557MaRDI QIDQ5029552FDOQ5029552

Authors: Damiano Anselmi 

Publication date: 14 February 2022

Published in: Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study primordial cosmology with two scalar fields that participate in inflation at the same time, by coupling quantum gravity (i.e., the theory $R+R^2+C^2$ with the fakeon prescription/projection for $C^2$) to a scalar field with a quadratic potential. We show that there exists a perturbative regime that can be described by an asymptotically de Sitter, cosmic RG flow in two couplings. Since the two scalar degrees of freedom mix in nontrivial ways, the adiabatic and isocurvature perturbations are not RG invariant on superhorizon scales. It is possible to identify the correct perturbations by using RG invariance as a guiding principle. We work out the resulting power spectra of the tensor and scalar perturbations to the NNLL and NLL orders, respectively. An unexpected consequence of RG invariance is that the theory remains predictive. Indeed, the scalar mixing affects only the subleading corrections, so the predictions of quantum gravity with single-field inflation are confirmed to the leading order.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.05864

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zbMATH Keywords

inflationquantum cosmologycosmological perturbation theoryquantum gravity phenomenology

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Perturbations in context of PDEs (35B20) Renormalization group methods applied to problems in quantum field theory (81T17) Quantum field theory on curved space or space-time backgrounds (81T20) Exact solutions to problems in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C15) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45) Relativistic cosmology (83F05) Geometrodynamics and the holographic principle (83E05)

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