An Unfinished Collaboration with A. A. Starobinsky
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
2025-09-03 v1
Abstract
The present text summarizes some of the results obtained in 2008 during the initial stages of a collaboration with Starobinsky which remained unfinished. The collaboration was an attempt to apply the stochastic approach to infrared (IR) quantum-gravity effects in an inflationary spacetime.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2509.00558,
title = {An Unfinished Collaboration with A. A. Starobinsky},
author = {Thibault Damour},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2509.00558},
year = {2025}
}
Comments
12 pages, no figures, Contribution to the book "Open Issues in Gravitation and Cosmology - Original Contributions, Essays and Recollections in Honor of Alexei Starobinsky", to be published by Springer, edited by Andrei Barvinsky and Alexander Kamenshchik