English

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 SL(3,Z){\rm SL}(3,\mathbb{Z}) family of geometries, computed using the theory of automorphic forms for GL(3){\rm GL}(3), produces a wavefunction favoring a large inflating universe with N250{\cal N} \gtrsim 250 ee-folds. We also compute corrections to the CMB power spectrum induced by torus moduli fluctuations.

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@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