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The tunneling wave function of the universe is investigated in a minisuperspace framework of a de Sitter universe with a quantum scalar field, treated as a perturbation. We consider three different approaches to defining the tunneling wave…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-09-19 Alexander Vilenkin , Masaki Yamada

In quantum cosmological models, constructed in the framework of Friedmann-Robertson-Walker metrics, a nucleation of the Universe with its further expansion is described as a tunneling transition through an effective barrier between regions…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-12-18 Sergei P. Maydanyuk

Quantum cosmology uses a wave function to model the universe, but finding solutions for this poses a problem as it is difficult to define the boundary conditions or identify the correct path for a path integral. We begin the discussion by…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-11-10 Alisha Marriott-Best

We develop a quantum-cosmological framework in which the inflationary potential emerges from the structure of the wave function of the universe rather than being postulated. Starting from the Wheeler-DeWitt equation for a flat…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-07 Gerasimos Kouniatalis

Modak and Singleton [Phys. Rev. D 86, 123515 (2012)] have presented Hawking-like radiation for cosmological inflation which has a natural "turn on" and a natural "turn off" mechanism. This Hawking-like radiation results in an effective…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-17 Javad T. Firouzjaee

Partial descriptions of the Universe are presented in the form of linear equations considered in the free (full, super) Fock space. The universal properties of these equations are discussed. The closure problem caused by computational and…

General Physics · Physics 2010-10-19 Jerzy Hanckowiak

Hawking's theorem on the topology of black holes asserts that cross sections of the event horizon in 4-dimensional asymptotically flat stationary black hole spacetimes obeying the dominant energy condition are topologically 2-spheres. This…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Gregory J. Galloway , Richard Schoen

The Hartle-Hawking and Tunneling (Vilenkin) wave functions are treated in the Hamiltonian formalism. We find that the leading (i.e. quadratic) terms in the fluctuations around a maximally symmetric background, are indeed Gaussian (rather…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-09-04 S. P. de Alwis

The wave function for a closed de Sitter universe has been computed, demanding consistency with the recently proposed Trans-Planckian Censorship Conjecture (TCC). We extend the Einstein-Hilbert action to contain a complex-valued term which…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-08-09 Vikramaditya Mondal

We find a novel phenomenon in the solution to the Wheeler-DeWitt equation by solving numerically the equation assuming $O(4)$-symmetry and imposing the Hartle-Hawking wave function as a boundary condition. In the slow-roll limit, as…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-05-13 Subeom Kang , Wan-il Park , Dong-han Yeom

Quantum creation of Universes with compact spacelike sections that have curvature $k$ either closed, flat or open, i.e. $k=\pm1,0$ are studied. In the flat and open cases, the superpotential of the Wheeler De Witt equation is significantly…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 D. H. Coule , Jerome Martin

The present research is about the analysis of the wave function of the universe applied to cosmological and quantum states. Also the wave function includes the history of the universe itself in several states, starting from the big bang and…

General Physics · Physics 2023-11-14 Martin Pomares Calero

In arXiv:1201.4067 and arXiv:1611.08030, Eyink and Shi and Chibbaro et al., respectively, formally derived an infinite, coupled hierarchy of equations for the spectral correlation functions of a system of weakly interacting nonlinear…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2022-03-14 Matthew Rosenzweig , Gigliola Staffilani

The wave function of the universe is evaluated by using the Euclidean path integral approach. As is well known, the real Euclidean path integral diverges because the Einstein-Hilbert action is not positive definite. In order to obtain a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-22 Atushi Ishikawa , Haruhiko Ueda

We demonstrate in the context of the minisuperspace model consisting of a closed Friedmann-Robertson-Walker universe coupled to a scalar field that Vilenkin's tunneling wavefunction can only be consistently defined for particular choices of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 N. Kontoleon , D. L. Wiltshire

We derive exact series solutions for the Wheeler-DeWitt equation corresponding to a spatially closed Friedmann-Robertson-Walker universe with cosmological constant for arbitrary operator ordering of the scale factor of the universe. The…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 D. L. Wiltshire

The aim of this work is to model the evolution of the cosmic space based on thermodynamical parameters. The universe is considered to have an apparent horizon radius with a Kodama-Hayward temperature assigned to it. The method is founded on…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-03-31 M. Hashemi , S. Jalalzadeh , S. Vasheghani Farahani

The main goal of this article is to present an algebraic approach to describing the birth and start evolution of the universe. In such an approach, it is possible to use the nature of supersymmetry in terms of the geometric representation…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-02-27 B. I. Lev

We have solved cosmological gravitational Wave(GW)equation in the frame work of Generalised Brans-Dicke(GBD) theory for all epochs of the Universe.The solutions are expressed in terms of the present value of the Brans-Dicke coupling…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 B. K. Sahoo , L. P. Singh