Eternal Inflation: Prohibited by Quantum Gravity?
High Energy Physics - Theory
2008-06-03 v1 Astrophysics
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Abstract
We investigate how eternal inflation is affected by quantum gravity effects. We consider general features of quantum gravity, such as renormalizability, complementarity, minimal length, definition of observables, and weak gravity conjecture. We also consider phenomenological models such as ghost inflation, non-commutative inflation, brane inflation, k-inflation and resonant tunneling. We find that all these features and models do not support eternal inflation. These evidences show hints that eternal inflation is prohibited by quantum gravity.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0805.4520,
title = {Eternal Inflation: Prohibited by Quantum Gravity?},
author = {Yi Wang},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0805.4520},
year = {2008}
}
Comments
4 pages, written for the young scholars competition of the New Vision 400 conference