Slow-roll approximation in quantum cosmology

DOI10.1088/1361-6382/ABE143MaRDI QIDQ5163369zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Oliver Janssen

Publication date 3 November 2021

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.06282

zbMATH Keywords

inflationquantum cosmologyslow-roll approximationtunneling wave function

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Associative rings of functions, subdirect products, sheaves of rings (16S60) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45) Relativistic cosmology (83F05) Tunneling in quantum theory (81U26)

Abstract: In minimally coupled scalar field theories with a potential of the slow-roll type, we give a detailed description of the complex $O(4)$-symmetric solutions to Einstein's equations on the four-ball which contribute to the no-boundary amplitude $Ps{i}_{e}xtsfNB(b,chi)$ for a closed universe to contain a round three-sphere spatial slice of size $b$ covered homogeneously with the scalar field at value $chi$. Our derivation demonstrates a result anticipated by Hartle, Hawking and Hertog in Phys. Rev. D 77 (2008) 123537 [arXiv:0803.1663], sharpens Vilenkin's result in Phys. Rev. D 37 (1988) 888 in the classical regime of the minisuperspace and makes use of a complexified slow-roll approximation. Our technique applies to both the Hartle-Hawking and Vilenkin wave functions, which both predict a family of inflationary universes but weight each member exponentially differently in the semiclassical approximation.

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