Inflation and topology from the no-boundary state
High Energy Physics - Theory
2026-05-08 v1 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Abstract
The no-boundary wavefunction for slow-roll inflation on the 3-sphere exponentially favors a small universe, in sharp disagreement with observations. We show that this problem is resolved by changing the spatial topology to the 3-torus. The sum over the family of geometries, computed using the theory of automorphic forms for , produces a wavefunction favoring a large inflating universe with -folds. We also compute corrections to the CMB power spectrum induced by torus moduli fluctuations.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2605.05317,
title = {Inflation and topology from the no-boundary state},
author = {Victor Godet},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2605.05317},
year = {2026}
}
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14 pages, 2 figures