English

Quantally fed steady-state domain distributions in Stochastic Inflation

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2016-08-31 v1

Abstract

Within the framework of stochastic inflationary cosmology we derive steady-state distributions P_c(V) of domains in comoving coordinates, under the assumption of slow-rolling and for two specific choices of the coarse-grained inflaton potential V(Φ)V(\Phi). We model the process as a Starobinsky-like equation in V-space plus a time-independent source term P_w(V) which carries (phenomenologically) quantum-mechanical information drawn from either of two known solutions of the Wheeler-De Witt equation: Hartle-Hawking's and Vilenkin's wave functions. The presence of the source term leads to the existence of nontrivial steady-state distributions P^w_c(V). The relative efficiencies of both mechanisms at different scales are compared for the proposed potentials.

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@article{arxiv.gr-qc/9911100,
  title  = {Quantally fed steady-state domain distributions in Stochastic Inflation},
  author = {Mauricio Bellini and Pablo D. Sisterna and Roberto R. Deza},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/9911100},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

10 pages, 1 figure, accepted for publication to Il Nuovo Cimento B