Possible relationship between initial conditions for inflation and past geodesic incompleteness of the inflationary spacetime

DOI10.1088/1475-7516/2023/05/007MaRDI QIDQ6161228zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Alexander Kaganovich

Publication date 5 June 2023

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.00249

zbMATH Keywords

cosmic singularityinflationl initia conditions and eternal universemodified gravity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Extension of functions and other analytic objects from CR manifolds (32V25) Spectrum, resolvent (47A10) Propagation of singularities; initial value problems on manifolds (58J47) Unified quantum theories (81V22) Space-time singularities, cosmic censorship, etc. (83C75) Relativistic gravitational theories other than Einstein's, including asymmetric field theories (83D05) Geometrodynamics and the holographic principle (83E05)

Abstract: According to the Borde-Guth-Vilenkin (BGV) theorem an expanding region of spacetime cannot be extended to the past beyond some boundary $mathcalB$. Therefore, the inflationary universe must have had some kind of beginning. However, the BGW theorem says nothing about the boundary conditions on $mathcalB$, or even about its location. Here we present a single-scalar field model of the Two-Measures Theory, where the non-Riemannian volume element $Upsilon{d}^{4}x$ is present in the action. As a result of the model dynamics, an upper bound $varph{i}_0$ of admissible values of the scalar field $varphi$ appears, which sets the position of $mathcalB$ in the form of a spacelike hypersurface $Upsilon(x)=0$ with a boundary condition: $Upsilonightarrow{0}^{+}$ as $varphiightarrowvarph{i}_0^{,,,-}$. A detailed study has established that if the initial kinetic energy density $h{o}_{kin}^{(in)}$ prevails over initial gradient energy density $h{o}_{grad}^{(in)}$ then there is an interval of initial values $varph{i}_{in}^{(min)}leqvarph{i}_{in}<varph{i}_0$, where $h{o}_{kin}^{(in)}$ and $h{o}_{grad}^{(in)}$ cannot exceed the potential energy density and hence the initial conditions necessary for the onset of inflation are satisfied. It is shown that under almost all possible left-handed boundary conditions on $mathcalB$, that is where $Upsilonightarrow{0}^{-}$, the metric tensor in the Einstein frame has a jump discontinuity on $mathcalB$, so the Christoffel connection coefficients are not defined on the spacelike hypersurface $Upsilon=0$. Thus, if $varph{i}_{in}^{(min)}leqvarph{i}_{in}<varph{i}_0$ and $h{o}_{kin}^{(in)}>h{o}_{grad}^{(in)}$, then there was an inflationary stage in the history of our Universe and the congruence of timelike geodesics cannot be extended to the past beyond the hypersurface $Upsilon=0$.

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