Numerical simulations of loop quantum Bianchi-I spacetimes

DOI10.1088/1361-6382/AA68B5zbMATH Open1369.83027arXiv1701.05824OpenAlexW3103801042WikidataQ62273538 ScholiaQ62273538MaRDI QIDQ5351990FDOQ5351990

Authors: Peter Diener, Anton Joe, Miguel Megevand, Parampreet Singh 

Publication date: 31 August 2017

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

Abstract: Due to the numerical complexities of studying evolution in an anisotropic quantum spacetime, in comparison to the isotropic models, the physics of loop quantized anisotropic models has remained largely unexplored. In particular, robustness of bounce and the validity of effective dynamics have so far not been established. Our analysis fills these gaps for the case of vacuum Bianchi-I spacetime. To efficiently solve the quantum Hamiltonian constraint we perform an implementation of the Cactus framework which is conventionally used for applications in numerical relativity. Using high performance computing, numerical simulations for a large number of initial states with a wide variety of fluctuations are performed. Big bang singularity is found to be replaced by anisotropic bounces for all the cases. We find that for initial states which are sharply peaked at the late times in the classical regime and bounce at a mean volume much greater than the Planck volume, effective dynamics is an excellent approximation to the underlying quantum dynamics. Departures of the effective dynamics from the quantum evolution appear for the states probing deep Planck volumes. A detailed analysis of the behavior of this departure reveals a non-monotonic and subtle dependence on fluctuations of the initial states. We find that effective dynamics in almost all of the cases underestimates the volume and hence overestimates the curvature at the bounce, a result in synergy with earlier findings in isotropic case. The expansion and shear scalars are found to be bounded throughout the evolution.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1701.05824

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zbMATH Keywords

numerical methodsloop quantum cosmologysingularity resolutionBianchi-I spacetimes

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45) Space-time singularities, cosmic censorship, etc. (83C75) Relativistic cosmology (83F05) Computational methods for problems pertaining to relativity and gravitational theory (83-08)

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