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Phenomenology of Quantum Reduced Loop Gravity in the isotropic cosmological sector

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2018-12-05 v2 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

Quantum reduced loop gravity is designed to consistently study symmetry reduced systems within the loop quantum gravity framework. In particular, it bridges the gap between the effective cosmological models of loop quantum cosmology and the full theory, addressing the dynamics before the minisuperspace reduction. This mostly preserves the graph structure and SU(2) quantum numbers. In this article, we study the phenomenological consequences of the isotropic sector of the theory, the so-called emergent bouncing universe model. In particular, the parameter space is scanned and we show that the number of inflationary e-folds is almost always higher than the observational lower-bound. We also compute the primordial tensor power spectrum and study its sensitivity upon the fundamental parameters used in the model.

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@article{arxiv.1808.10225,
  title  = {Phenomenology of Quantum Reduced Loop Gravity in the isotropic cosmological sector},
  author = {Emanuele Alesci and Aurélien Barrau and Gioele Botta and Killian Martineau and Gabriele Stagno},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1808.10225},
  year   = {2018}
}

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18 pages, 12 figures