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关于彩虹宇宙学中的初始奇点问题

On the initial singularity problem in rainbow cosmology

Grasiele Santos, Giulia Gubitosi, Giovanni Amelino-Camelia

摘要:

最近有人声称,在彩虹宇宙学的背景下,初始奇点可能会被避免,人们试图通过基于能量相关(“彩虹”)时空度规的有效理论描述来解释量子引力修正。我们在这里仔细审查这个令人兴奋的假设比以前的分析更深入。特别是,我们考虑到所有的要求,避免奇点,而以前只有这些要求的一个子集已被考虑。此外,我们表明,彩虹度规对热力学的影响比以前更显着。通过对彩虹度量的两个特别有意义的例子的分析,我们发现我们的关注不仅在概念上很重要,而且实际上以定量的方式显著改变了分析的结果。值得注意的是,我们只找到了不避免奇点的例子,尽管在我们的半经典图像仍然可靠的情况下,与标准经典场景相比,接近奇点的速度会减慢。我们的结论是,彩虹度量的研究提供了诱人的暗示奇点避免,但是不确定的,因为一些关键的问题仍然有待解决的尺度因子是非常小的,一个政权,如这里所说,不能可靠地描述一个有效的彩虹度量图片。

英文摘要:

It has been recently claimed that the initial singularity might be avoided in the context of rainbow cosmology, where one attempts to account for quantum-gravitational corrections through an effective-theory description based on an energy-dependent ("rainbow") space-time metric. We here scrutinize this exciting hypothesis much more in depth than previous analyses. In particular, we take into account all requirements for singularity avoidance, while previously only a subset of these requirements had been considered. Moreover, we show that the implications of a rainbow metric for thermodynamics are more significant than previously appreciated. Through the analysis of two particularly meaningful examples of rainbow metrics we find that our concerns are not merely important conceptually, but actually change in quantitatively significant manner the outcome of the analysis. Notably we only find examples where the singularity is not avoided, though one can have that in the regime where our semi-classical picture is still reliable the approach to the singularity is slowed down when compared to the standard classical scenario. We conclude that the study of rainbow metrics provides tantalizing hints of singularity avoidance but is inconclusive, since some key questions remain to be addressed just when the scale factor is very small, a regime which, as here argued, cannot be reliably described by an effective rainbow-metric picture.

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