English

Nonsingular cosmology from evolutionary quantum gravity

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2015-06-22 v2

Abstract

We provide a cosmological implementation of the evolutionary quantum gravity, describing an isotropic Universe, in the presence of a negative cosmological constant and a massive (preinflationary) scalar field. We demonstrate that the considered Universe has a nonsingular quantum behavior, associated to a primordial bounce, whose ground state has a high occupation number. Furthermore, in such a vacuum state, the super-Hamiltonian eigenvalue is negative, corresponding to a positive emerging dust energy density. The regularization of the model is performed via a polymer quantum approach to the Universe scale factor and the proper classical limit is then recovered, in agreement with a preinflationary state of the Universe. Since the dust energy density is redshifted by the Universe deSitter phase and the cosmological constant does not enter the ground state eigenvalue, we get a late-time cosmology, compatible with the present observations, endowed with a turning point in the far future.

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@article{arxiv.1408.1238,
  title  = {Nonsingular cosmology from evolutionary quantum gravity},
  author = {Francesco Cianfrani and Giovanni Montani and Fabrizio Pittorino},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1408.1238},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

17 pages, 8 figures, minor changes, accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. D

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