English

Quantum Gravity Corrections to the inflationary spectrum in a Bohmian approach

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2024-07-04 v2 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

A precise interpretation of the Universe wave function is forbidden in the spirit of the Copenhagen School since a precise notion of measure operation cannot be satisfactorily defined. Here we propose a Bohmian interpretation of the isotropic Universe quantum dynamics, in which the Hamilton-Jacobi equation is restated by including quantum corrections, which lead to a classical trajectory containing effects of order 2\hbar^2. This solution is then used to determine the spectrum of gauge-invariant quantum fluctuations living on the obtained background model. The analysis is performed adopting the wave function approach to describe the fluctuation dynamics, which gives a time-dependent harmonic oscillator for each Fourier mode and whose frequency is affected by the 2\hbar^2 corrections. The properties of the emerging spectrum are discussed, outlining the modification induced with respect to the scale-invariant result and the hierarchy of the spectral index running is discussed.

Keywords

Cite

@article{arxiv.2405.13200,
  title  = {Quantum Gravity Corrections to the inflationary spectrum in a Bohmian approach},
  author = {Giulia Maniccia and Giovanni Montani},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2405.13200},
  year   = {2024}
}

Comments

19 pages, 4 figures; discussion expanded and references added; matching the published version