Inflationary attractors and their measures

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/31/6/062001zbMATH Open1292.83057arXiv1310.6399OpenAlexW1967803207WikidataQ57564307 ScholiaQ57564307MaRDI QIDQ5413610FDOQ5413610

Authors: Alejandro Corichi, David Sloan 

Publication date: 30 April 2014

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

Abstract: Several recent misconceptions about the measure problem in inflation and the nature of inflationary attractors are addressed. We show that within the Hamiltonian system of flat Friedmann-Lema^itre-Robertson-Walker cosmology coupled to a massive scalar field, the focussing of the Liouville measure on attractor solutions is brought about by a spread in a gauge degree of freedom - the spatial volume. Using this we show how the Liouville measure formulated on a surface of constant Hubble rate induces a probability distribution function on surfaces of other Hubble rates, and the attractor behaviour is seen through the focussing of this function on a narrow range of physical observables. One can conclude then that standard techniques from Hamiltonian dynamics suffice to provide a satisfactory description of attractor solutions and the measure problem. Updated to match published version.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1310.6399

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zbMATH Keywords

attractorsmeasure probleminflationary dynamics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of statistics to physics (62P35) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Space-time singularities, cosmic censorship, etc. (83C75) Relativistic cosmology (83F05) Set functions and measures on topological groups or semigroups, Haar measures, invariant measures (28C10) Relativistic dynamics for problems in Hamiltonian and Lagrangian mechanics (70H40)

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