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宇宙重载的密度矩阵:暴胀和宇宙加速的起源

Density matrix of the Universe reloaded: origin of inflation and cosmological acceleration

A. O. Barvinsky, C. Deffayet, A. Yu. Kamenshchik

摘要:

我们提出了一个概述最近提出的宇宙密度矩阵形式的量子初始条件的新模型。这个最初在欧几里德量子引力框架中提出的密度矩阵被证明是描述空间封闭宇宙学模型的洛伦兹量子引力中的微正则系综。这个系综在理论的物理相空间中代表了一个均分(对所有事物求和),但就可观测的时空几何而言,它在一组限制在宇宙学常数有界范围内的宇宙学中达到了顶峰。这暗示了一种限制弦真空景观的机制,以及宇宙微正则态准平衡衰变形式的暗能量问题的可能解决方案。有效的弗里德曼方程控制这种衰变,结合了量子场的共形异常的影响,并具有一个新的机制,宇宙加速阶段-大助推方案。我们还简要讨论了我们的模型,AdS/CFT对应和RS和DGP膜世界之间的关系。

英文摘要:

We present an overview of a recently suggested new model of quantum initial conditions for the Universe in the form of a cosmological density matrix. This density matrix originally suggested in the Euclidean quantum gravity framework turns out to describe the microcanonical ensemble in the Lorentzian quantum gravity of spatially closed cosmological models. This ensemble represents an equipartition in the physical phase space of the theory (sum over everything), but in terms of the observable spacetime geometry it is peaked about a set of cosmologies limited to a bounded range of the cosmological constant. This suggests a mechanism to constrain the landscape of string vacua and a possible solution to the dark energy problem in the form of the quasi-equilibrium decay of the microcanonical state of the Universe. The effective Friedmann equation governing this decay incorporates the effect of the conformal anomaly of quantum fields and features a new mechanism for a cosmological acceleration stage -- big boost scenario. We also briefly discuss the relation between our model, the AdS/CFT correspondence and RS and DGP braneworlds.

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