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Primordial dust universe in the Ho\v{r}ava-Lifshitz theory

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2024-03-12 v1

Abstract

We apply quantum cosmology to investigate the early moments of a Friedmann-Lema\^itre-Robertson-Walker (FLRW) cosmological model, using Ho\v{r}ava-Lifshitz (HL) as the gravitational theory. The matter content of the model is a dust perfect fluid. We start studying the classical model. Then, we write the total Hamiltonian of the model, quantize it and find the appropriate Wheeler-DeWitt equation. In order to avoid factor ordering ambiguities, in the Wheeler-DeWitt equation, we introduce a canonical transformation. We solve that equation using the Wentzel-Kramers-Brillouin (WKB) approximation and compute the tunneling probabilities for the birth of that universe (TPWKBTP_{WKB}). Since the WKB wavefunction depends on the dust energy and the free coupling constants coming from the HL theory, we compute the behavior of TPWKBTP_{WKB} as a function of all these quantities.

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@article{arxiv.2403.05667,
  title  = {Primordial dust universe in the Ho\v{r}ava-Lifshitz theory},
  author = {G. Oliveira-Neto and A. Oliveira Castro Júnior and G. A. Monerat},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2403.05667},
  year   = {2024}
}

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The paper has 13 pages and 7 figures