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Quantum Cauchy problem in cosmology

High Energy Physics - Theory 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

We develop a general framework for effective equations of expectation values in quantum cosmology and pose for them the quantum Cauchy problem with no-boundary and tunneling wavefunctions. We apply this framework in the model with a big negative non-minimal coupling, which incorporates a recently proposed low energy (GUT scale) mechanism of the quantum origin of the inflationary Universe and study the effects of the quantum inflaton mode.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0009170,
  title  = {Quantum Cauchy problem in cosmology},
  author = {A. O. Barvinsky and D. V. Nesterov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0009170},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

Talk at the E.S. Fradkin Memorial Conference (Moscow, June 2000); 10 pages, LaTeX