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We propose two new classes of instantons which describe the tunneling and/or quantum creation of closed and open universes. The instantons leading to an open universe can be considered as generalizations of the Coleman-De-Luccia solution.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-09-29 Raphael Bousso , Andrei Linde

We suggest a path integral formulation for the tunneling cosmological state, which admits a consistent renormalization and renormalization group (RG) improvement in particle physics applications of quantum cosmology. We apply this…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-04-06 Andrei O. Barvinsky , Alexander Yu. Kamenshchik , Claus Kiefer , Christian F. Steinwachs

The early Universe inflation is well known as a promising theory to explain the origin of large scale structure of Universe and to solve the early universe pressing problems. For a resonable inflation model, the potential during inflation…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Xin He Meng

We discuss the notion of generating a cosmic inflation without any big bang singularity. It has been proved recently by Good and Linder (arXiv : 2503.02380v1) that such an expansion of the universe can be driven by quantum fluctuations…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-12 Soumya Chakrabarti

We propose a scenario of the beginning of inflation in which the non-vacuum value of the scalar field that drives inflation develops dynamically due to the non-minimal coupling to gravity. In this scenario, inflation emerges as an…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-09-06 M. V. Libanov , V. A. Rubakov , P. G. Tinyakov

We calculate the bispectrum of primordial curvature perturbations, \zeta, generated during "open inflation." Inflation occurs inside a bubble nucleated via quantum tunneling from the background false vacuum state. Our universe lives inside…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Kazuyuki Sugimura , Eiichiro Komatsu

We consider the eternal inflation scenario of the slow-roll/chaotic type with the additional element of an objective collapse of the wave function. The incorporation of this new agent to the traditional inflationary setting might represent…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-10-27 Gabriel Leon

The solution for an inflationary universe without singularities is derived from the Einstein-Lemaitre equations. The present state of the universe evolved from a steady state solution for a tiny, but classical micro-universe with large…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 E. Rebhan

We speculate that the early Universe was inside a primordial black hole. The interior of the the black hole is a dS background and the two spacetimes are separated on the surface of black hole's event horizon. We argue that this picture…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-10-13 Hassan Firouzjahi

We investigate if the observed small and nearly scale-invariant primordial cosmic perturbation, i.e. the perturbation amplitude $P_\zeta\sim10^{-9}$ and the spectral index $n_s \simeq 0.965$, is typical in the landscape of vacua after…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-17 Chien-I Chiang , Keisuke Harigaya

It is possible that the expansion of the universe began with an inflationary phase, in which the inflaton driving the process also was a Higgs field capable of stabilizing magnetic monopoles in a grand-unified gauge theory. If so, then the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Alfred Scharff Goldhaber

The Higgs field is an attractive candidate for the inflaton because it is an observationally confirmed fundamental scalar field. Importantly, it can be modeled by the most general renormalizable scalar potential. However, if the classical…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-29 Martin Bojowald , Suddhasattwa Brahma , Sean Crowe , Ding Ding , Joseph McCracken

We investigate a nonsingular initial state of the Universe which leads to inflation naturally. The model is described by a scalar field with a quadratic potential in Eddington-inspired Born-Infeld gravity. The curvature of this initial…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-08-26 Inyong Cho , Hyeong-Chan Kim , Taeyoon Moon

We propose a model for cosmic inflation which is based on an effective description of strongly interacting, nonsupersymmetric matter within the framework of dynamical Abelian projection and centerization. The underlying gauge symmetry is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-07 Ralf Hofmann , Mathias Th. Keil

A static non-singular 10-dimensional closed Friedmann universe of Planck size, filled with a perfect fluid with an equation of state with w = -2/3, can arise spontaneously by a quantum fluctuation from nothing in 11-dimensional spacetime. A…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 T. R. Mongan

This thesis is dedicated to studying cosmological inflation, which is a period of accelerated expansion in the very early Universe that is required to explain the observed anisotropies in the cosmic microwave background. Inflation, when…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-02 Chris Pattison

In the standard picture, the inflationary universe is in a supercooled state which ends with a short time, large scale reheating period, after which the universe goes into a radiation dominated stage. An alternative is proposed here in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-30 Arjun Berera

The idea that the universe might be open is an old one, and the possibility of having an open universe arise form inflation is not new either. However, a concrete realization of a consistent single-bubble open inflation model is known only…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Juan Garcia-Bellido

A model of a universe without big bang singularity is presented, which displaysanearly inflationary period ending just before a phase transition to a deflationary epoch. The model produces enough heavy particles so as to reheat the universe…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-09-05 Jaume de Haro , Emilio Elizalde

The particle production process is reviewed, through which cosmic inflation can produce a scale invariant superhorizon spectrum of perturbations of suitable fields starting from their quantum fluctuations. Afterwards, in the context of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-03-28 Konstantinos Dimopoulos