Probability of inflation in loop quantum cosmology

DOI10.1007/S10714-011-1246-YzbMATH Open1269.83065arXiv1103.2475OpenAlexW1994466134MaRDI QIDQ657753FDOQ657753

Authors: Abhay Ashtekar, David Sloan 

Publication date: 10 January 2012

Published in: General Relativity and Gravitation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Inflationary models of the early universe provide a natural mechanism for the formation of large scale structure. This success brings to forefront the question of naturalness: Does a sufficiently long slow roll inflation occur generically or does it require a careful fine tuning of initial parameters? In recent years there has been considerable controversy on this issue. In particular, for a quadratic potential, Kofman, Linde and Mukhanov have argued that the probability of inflation with at least 65 e-foldings is close to one, while Gibbons and Turok have argued that this probability is suppressed by a factor of ~ $10^{-85}$. We first clarify that such dramatically different predictions can arise because the required measure on the space of solutions is intrinsically ambiguous in general relativity. We then show that this ambiguity can be naturally resolved in loop quantum cosmology (LQC) because the big bang is replaced by a big bounce and the bounce surface can be used to introduce the structure necessary to specify a satisfactory measure. The second goal of the paper is to present a detailed analysis of the inflationary dynamics of LQC using analytical and numerical methods. By combining this information with the measure on the space of solutions, we address a sharper question than those investigated in the literature: What is the probability of a sufficiently long slow roll inflation WHICH IS COMPATIBLE WITH THE SEVEN YEAR WMAP DATA? We show that the probability is very close to 1. The material is so organized that cosmologists who may be more interested in the inflationary dynamics in LQC than in the subtleties associated with measures can skip that material without loss of continuity.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1103.2475

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zbMATH Keywords

measuresprobabilitycosmologyinflationloop quantum gravityWMAP 7 year data

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of statistics to physics (62P35) Statistical astronomy (85A35) Quantum measurement theory, state operations, state preparations (81P15) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45) Space-time singularities, cosmic censorship, etc. (83C75) Relativistic cosmology (83F05) Astrophysical cosmology (85A40)

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