Primordial dust universe in the Ho\v{r}ava-Lifshitz theory
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 (). Since the WKB wavefunction depends on the dust energy and the free coupling constants coming from the HL theory, we compute the behavior of 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