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Long Inflation Screens Euclidean-Wormhole Initial States

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2026-05-07 v1

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 βe2Npre|\beta_*| \lesssim e^{-2N_{\rm pre}}, and smooth Euclidean filters confine residual signatures to a comoving edge kw=aiMk_w=a_iM. 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

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