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Cosmological models in 1+1 dimensions are an ideal setting for investigating the quantum structure of inflationary dynamics -- gravity is renormalizable, while there is room for spatial structure not present in the minisuperspace…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-09-16 Emil J. Martinec , Wynton E. Moore

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

Within the framework of symmetric teleparallel $f\left( Q\right) $-gravity for a connection defined in the non-coincidence gauge we derive the Wheeler-DeWitt equation of quantum cosmology. Because the gravitational field equation in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-09-13 Andronikos Paliathanasis

Quantum inequalities are bounds on negative time-averages of the energy density of a quantum field. They can be used to rule out exotic spacetimes in general relativity. We study quantum inequalities for a scalar field with a background…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-07-16 Eleni-Alexandra Kontou , Ken D. Olum

In this note we investigate outcomes of a symplectic formula for the gravitational waves charges in the general relativity linearized around the de Sitter spacetime. We derive their explicit form at {\it scri} in the Bondi frame, compare…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-01-04 Maciej Kolanowski , Jerzy Lewandowski

A recent study established a correspondence between the Generalized Uncertainty Principle (GUP) and Modified theories of gravity, particularly Stelle gravity. We investigate the consequences of this correspondence for inflation and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-11-01 Saurya Das , S. Shankaranarayanan , Vasil Todorinov

Covariant generalizations of well-known wave equations predict the existence of inertial-gravitational effects for a variety of quantum systems that range from Bose-Einstein condensates to particles in accelerators. Additional effects arise…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 G. Papini

We evaluated the scattering amplitude of neutral scalar particles at one-loop order in the context of effective field theory of quantum gravity in the presence of a cosmological constant. Our study suggests that quantum gravitational…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-12-02 A. C. Lehum

We propose that de-Sitter space-time originates from Gaussian distribution in a quantum harmonic oscillator system. This equation associates with a massless Klein-Gordon equation. We discover that every excited states of quantum oscillator…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-10-01 Leihua Liu , Jiansen Zheng

We investigate the motion of test particles in quantum-gravitational backgrounds by introducing the concept of q--desics, quantum-corrected analogs of classical geodesics. Unlike standard approaches that rely solely on the expectation value…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-13 Benjamin Koch , Ali Riahinia , Angel Rincon

Based on certain assumptions for the expectation value of a product of the quantum fluctuating metric at two points, the gravitational and scalar field Lagrangians are evaluated. Assuming a vanishing expectation value of the first order…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-23 Vladimir Dzhunushaliev , Vladimir Folomeev , Burkhard Kleihaus , Jutta Kunz

The empty space (with no matter fields) is not really empty because of natural metric fluctuations, quantum and classical. We show that gravitons as well as classical gravitational waves of super-horizon wavelengths are able to form the de…

General Physics · Physics 2017-05-08 Leonid Marochnik

Inspired by quantum gravitational physics, the approach of non-commutative (NC) phase space leads to a modified dispersion relation of gravitational waves. This feature, if applied to the very early universe, gives rise to a modified power…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-06-20 Yi-Fu Cai , Yi Wang

The effects of generalized uncertainty principle (GUP) on the inflationary dynamics and the thermodynamics of the early universe are studied. Using the GUP approach, the tensorial and scalar density fluctuations in the inflation era are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-05-16 A. Tawfik , H. Magdy , A. Farag Ali

We solve the Wheeler-DeWitt equation for {\it four}-dimensional Einstein gravity as an expansion in powers of the Planck mass by means of a heat kernel regularization. Our results suggest that in the universe with a very small radius or…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-11-01 T. Horiguchi , K. Maeda , M. Sakmaoto

We discuss the classical and quantum properties of non-local modified Gauss-Bonnet gravity in de Sitter space, using its equivalent representation via string-inspired local scalar-Gauss-Bonnet gravity with a scalar potential. A classical,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Guido Cognola , Emilio Elizalde , Shin'ichi Nojiri , Sergei D. Odintsov , Sergio Zerbini

We consider a composite particle, whose internal degrees of freedom are described by quantum mechanics, interacting with the quantum gravitational field in the linear approximation. Dechorence induced by the quantum fluctuations of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-15 T. H. Moreira , L. C. Céleri

We discuss the implications of a wave function for quantum gravity, which involves nothing but 3-dimensional geometries as arguments and is invariant under general coordinate transformations. We derive an analytic wave function from the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-08-17 Masakatsu Kenmoku , Hiroto Kubotani , Eiichi Takasugi , Yuki Yamazaki

We employ the semiclassical approximation to the Wheeler-DeWitt equation in the spatially flat de Sitter Universe to investigate the dynamics of a minimally coupled scalar field near the Planck scale. We find that, contrary to naive…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-07 Corrado Appignani , Roberto Casadio

The quantum potential approach makes it possible to construct a complementary picture of quantum mechanical evolution which reminds classical equation of motion. The only difference as compared to equations of motion for the underlying…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-11-03 J. Kowalski - Glikman
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