Eternal inflation in light of Wheeler-DeWitt equation

DOI10.1088/1475-7516/2020/11/007zbMATH Open1486.83155arXiv2007.03866OpenAlexW3097210268MaRDI QIDQ5035268FDOQ5035268

Authors: Minseok Seo 

Publication date: 21 February 2022

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

Abstract: The Wheeler-DeWitt equation provides the probability distribution for the curvature perturbation, the gauge invariant quantum fluctuation of the inflaton. From this, we can find a tower of power spectra which is not found in a perturbative approach. Since the power spectrum for the modes that cross the horizon contributes to the uncertainty in the classical inflaton displacement, we obtain new conditions for eternal inflation. In the presence of the patch in the higher excitations, the bound on the slow-roll parameter allowing eternal inflation is given by at most $epsilonlesssim(2n+1)(H/m_{mPl}{)}^2$ with $n$ integer indicating the quantum number labelling the excitation. For large $n$, the bound on $epsilon$ is relaxed such that eternal inflation can take place with even larger value of $epsilon$. While the second law of thermodynamics implies that $n=0$ state is preferred, we cannot ignore such large $n$ effect since the nonlinear interaction inducing transitions to the $n=0$ state is suppressed.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.03866

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zbMATH Keywords

inflationquantum cosmologystring theory and cosmologyinitial conditions and eternal universe

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Reasoning under uncertainty in the context of artificial intelligence (68T37) Perturbations in context of PDEs (35B20) Hyperbolic equations on manifolds (58J45) Classical and relativistic thermodynamics (80A10) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45) String and superstring theories in gravitational theory (83E30) Relativistic cosmology (83F05) Geometrodynamics and the holographic principle (83E05)

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