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We review some recent progress in the extraction of inflationary observables in loop quantum cosmology. Inverse-volume quantum corrections induce a growth of power in the large-scale cosmological spectra and are constrained by observations.

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-05-23 Gianluca Calcagni

We study in detail the power spectra of scalar and tensor perturbations generated during inflation in loop quantum cosmology (LQC). After clarifying in a novel quantitative way how inverse-volume corrections arise in inhomogeneous settings,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-03-19 Martin Bojowald , Gianluca Calcagni , Shinji Tsujikawa

We first derive the primordial power spectra, spectral indices and runnings of both scalar and tensor perturbations of a flat inflationary universe to the second-order approximations of the slow-roll parameters, in the framework of loop…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-03-25 Tao Zhu , Anzhong Wang , Klaus Kirsten , Gerald Cleaver , Qin Sheng , Qiang Wu

Together with holonomy corrections, inverse volume terms should be taken into account when studying the primordial universe in loop quantum cosmology. We investigate how the tensor power spectrum is modified with respect to the standard…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-05-29 J. Grain , A. Barrau , A. Gorecki

Loop quantum cosmology (LQC) provides promising resolutions to the trans-Planckian issue and initial singularity arising in the inflationary models of general relativity. In general, due to different quantization approaches, LQC involves…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-12-10 Tao Zhu , Anzhong Wang , Gerald Cleaver , Klaus Kirsten , Qin Sheng , Qiang Wu

The full set of cosmological observables coming from linear scalar and tensor perturbations of loop quantum cosmology is computed in the presence of inverse-volume corrections. Background inflationary solutions are found at linear order in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-03-28 Martin Bojowald , Gianluca Calcagni

Loop quantum cosmology provides an efficient framework to study the evolution of the Universe beyond the classical Big Bang paradigm. Because of holonomy corrections, the singularity is replaced by a "bounce". The dynamics of the background…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-03-13 Jakub Mielczarek , Thomas Cailleteau , Julien Grain , Aurelien Barrau

We explore the consequences of loop quantum cosmology (inverse-volume corrections) in the spectrum of the gravitational waves using the method of the Bogoliubov coefficients. These corrections are taken into account at the background level…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-01-22 Joao Morais , Mariam Bouhmadi-Lopez , Alfredo B. Henriques

The inflationary and pre-inflationary evolution of scalar modes of cosmological perturbations in a closed universe is analyzed for a loop quantum cosmology model with an inflationary regime consistent with the constraints on inflation…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-11-26 Lucas M. V. Montese , Nelson Yokomizo

The primordial spectrum of cosmological tensor perturbations is considered as a possible probe of quantum gravity effects. Together with string theory, loop quantum gravity is one of the most promising frameworks to study quantum effects in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-04-09 J. Grain , A. Barrau

We study the tensor modes of linear metric perturbations within an effective framework of loop quantum cosmology. After a review of inverse-volume and holonomy corrections in the background equations of motion, we solve the linearized…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-07-24 Gianluca Calcagni , Golam Mortuza Hossain

This article addresses the issue of the closure of the algebra of constraints for generic (cosmological) perturbations when taking into account simultaneously the two main corrections of effective loop quantum cosmology, namely the holonomy…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-07-28 Thomas Cailleteau , Linda Linsefors , Aurelien Barrau

This thesis is centered on three main subjects within the theory of inflation and cosmological perturbations: loop corrections to the power spectrum of curvature fluctuations generated during inflation; evolution of cosmological…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-13 Emanuela Dimastrogiovanni

The cosmological primordial power spectrum is known to be one of the most promising observable to probe quantum gravity effects. In this article, we investigate how the tensor power spectrum is modified by Loop Quantum Gravity corrections.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-04-06 J. Grain , T. Cailleteau , A. Barrau , A. Gorecki

We provide an exhaustive numerical exploration of the predictions of loop quantum cosmology (LQC) with a post-bounce phase of inflation for the primordial power spectrum of scalar and tensor perturbations. We extend previous analysis by…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-12-30 Ivan Agullo , Noah A. Morris

In the previous paper [arXiv:2210.10435], the nonlinear perturbation theory of cosmological density field is generalized to include the tensor-valued bias of astronomical objects, such as spins and shapes of galaxies and any other tensors…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-23 Takahiko Matsubara

The era of precision cosmology has allowed us to accurately determine many important cosmological parameters, in particular via the CMB. Confronting Loop Quantum Cosmology with these observations provides us with a powerful test of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-04-06 Ivan Agullo , Abhay Ashtekar , William Nelson

For most initial conditions, cosmologically relevant physical modes were trans-planckian at the bounce time, often by many magnitude orders. We improve the usual loop quantum cosmology calculation of the primordial power spectra -- in the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-05-23 Killian Martineau , Aurélien Barrau , Julien Grain

A fully consistent linear perturbation theory for cosmology is derived in the presence of quantum corrections as they are suggested by properties of inverse volume operators in loop quantum gravity. The underlying constraints present a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Martin Bojowald , Golam Mortuza Hossain , Mikhail Kagan , S. Shankaranarayanan

Within a perturbative cosmological regime of loop quantum gravity corrections to effective constraints are computed. This takes into account all inhomogeneous degrees of freedom relevant for scalar metric modes around flat space and results…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Martin Bojowald , Hector Hernandez , Mikhail Kagan , Aureliano Skirzewski
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