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Stringy Spacetime Uncertainty as an Alternative to Inflation

2001/01/10 by Je-An Gu, Gu, Je-An, Pei-Ming Ho +3
Physics and Astronomy · #Astrophysics (astro-ph) #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #FOS: Physical sciences #General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc) #High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th) #Noncommutative and Quantum Gravity Theories #astro-ph #gr-qc #hep-th

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/0101058

9 pages, acknowledgement added

openalex publication_date 2001/01/10 · arxiv created 2001/02/19 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/04

Abstract

In this paper we point out that the spacetime uncertainty relation proposed for string theory has strong cosmological implications that can solve the flatness problem and the horizon problem without the need of inflation. We make minimal assumptions about the very early universe.

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