Primordial Fluctuations from Inflation: a Consistent Histories Approach
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
2009-05-20 v1 Astrophysics
High Energy Physics - Theory
Quantum Physics
Abstract
We show how the quantum-to-classical transition of the cosmological fluctuations produced during an inflationary stage can be described using the consistent histories approach. We identify the corresponding histories in the limit of infinite squeezing. To take the decaying mode into account, we propose an extension to coarse-grained histories.
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@article{arxiv.gr-qc/9812008,
title = {Primordial Fluctuations from Inflation: a Consistent Histories Approach},
author = {David Polarski},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/9812008},
year = {2009}
}
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LaTeX (7 pages), to appear in Phys. Lett. B