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Lattice refinement in loop quantum cosmology

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2009-11-05 v1 Astrophysics High Energy Physics - Phenomenology High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

Lattice refinement in LQC, its meaning and its necessity are discussed. The r\^ole of lattice refinement for the realisation of a successful inflationary model is explicitly shown. A simple and effective numerical technique to solve the constraint equation for any choice of lattice refinement model is briefly illustrated. Phenomenological and consistency requirements leading to a particular choice of lattice refinement model are presented, while it is subsequently proved that only this choice of lattice refinement leads to a unique factor ordering in the Wheeler-De Witt equation, which is the continuum limit of LQC.

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@article{arxiv.0810.5356,
  title  = {Lattice refinement in loop quantum cosmology},
  author = {Mairi Sakellariadou},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0810.5356},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

17 pages, 1 figure, to appear in the Proceedings of "Recent Developments in Gravity-NEB XIII"; Thessaloniki (Greece), June 2008

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