Nonsingular cosmology from evolutionary quantum gravity
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.
Cite
@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