Long Inflation Screens Euclidean-Wormhole Initial States
Abstract
Euclidean wormholes can prepare inflation in non--Bunch--Davies initial states, but long Lorentzian expansion screens this memory from the CMB. We derive a visibility bound for Euclidean-matched Bogoliubov data: the pivot excitation satisfies , and smooth Euclidean filters confine residual signatures to a comoving edge . Only near-minimal inflation, or an edge inside the observable window, leaves detectable scalar, tensor, and higher-point imprints. For longer inflation, wormhole-prepared perturbations are driven to the Bunch--Davies prediction. Euclidean memory therefore, becomes a quantitative bound on inflationary duration, with direct targets in CMB polarization and large-scale structure: the longer inflation lasts, the less of the wormhole remains on the sky.
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@article{arxiv.2605.04166,
title = {Long Inflation Screens Euclidean-Wormhole Initial States},
author = {Imtiaz Khan and Pirzada and G. Mustafa and Farruh Atamurotov and Chengxun Yuan},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2605.04166},
year = {2026}
}
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8 pages, 3 figures