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No-boundary measure of the universe.

James B Hartle1, S W Hawking, Thomas Hertog.   

Abstract

We consider the no-boundary proposal for homogeneous isotropic closed universes with a cosmological constant and a scalar field with a quadratic potential. In the semiclassical limit, it predicts classical behavior at late times if the scalar field is large enough. The classical histories may be singular in the past or bounce at a finite radius. This probability measure selects inflationary histories but is biased towards small numbers of e-foldings N. However, to obtain the probability of our observations in our past light cone these probabilities should be multiplied by exp(3N). This volume weighting is similar to that in eternal inflation. In a landscape potential, it would predict that the Universe underwent a large amount of inflation and could have always been semiclassical.

Year:  2008        PMID: 18518521     DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.201301

Source DB:  PubMed          Journal:  Phys Rev Lett        ISSN: 0031-9007            Impact factor:   9.161


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1.  100 years of mathematical cosmology: Models, theories and problems, Part B.

Authors:  Spiros Cotsakis; Alexander P Yefremov
Journal:  Philos Trans A Math Phys Eng Sci       Date:  2022-07-04       Impact factor: 4.019

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