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Quantum Cauchy problem in cosmology

2000/09/21 by A. O. Barvinsky, Barvinsky, A. O., D. V. Nesterov +1
Economics, Econometrics and Finance · Physics and Astronomy · #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th) #Stochastic processes and financial applications #hep-th

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/0009170

Talk at the E.S. Fradkin Memorial Conference (Moscow, June 2000); 10 pages, LaTeX

arxiv created 2000/09/21 · openalex publication_date 2000/09/21 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28

Abstract

We develop a general framework for effective equations of expectation values in quantum cosmology and pose for them the quantum Cauchy problem with no-boundary and tunneling wavefunctions. We apply this framework in the model with a big negative non-minimal coupling, which incorporates a recently proposed low energy (GUT scale) mechanism of the quantum origin of the inflationary Universe and study the effects of the quantum inflaton mode.

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