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真正洛伦兹性的量子宇宙学

Truly Lorentzian quantum cosmology

Ding Jia

AI总结:

本文提出将迷你超空间路径积分限制在正尺度因子平方的洛伦兹构型上,发现这能显著改变期望值、实现奇点避免,并表明半经典鞍点近似并非总是有效,需重新审视隧穿、无边界提议、反弹宇宙学及暴胀量子起源等相关工作。

摘要:

基于洛伦兹路径积分的量子宇宙学是一个有前景的研究方向。然而,许多先前的工作通过在整个实轴上对尺度因子平方进行积分,允许了非洛伦兹构型。本文表明,将迷你超空间路径积分限制在具有正尺度因子平方的洛伦兹构型上,可以显著改变期望值。此外,这使得研究因果视界及其量子涨落成为可能,并通过将奇异迷你超空间几何排除为非洛伦兹构型,平凡地实现了奇点避免。结果表明,在真正洛伦兹性的量子宇宙学中,半经典鞍点近似并不总是有效的。因此,关于隧穿和无边界提议、反弹宇宙学以及暴胀的量子起源等相关工作需要重新审视。

英文摘要:

Quantum cosmology based on Lorentzian path integrals is a promising avenue. However, many previous works allow non-Lorentzian configurations by integrating the squared scale factor over the whole real line. Here we show that restricting the minisuperspace path integral to Lorentzian configurations with positive squared scale factor can significantly change the expectation values. In addition, this enables the study of causal horizons and their quantum fluctuations, and achieves singularity avoidance trivially by excluding singular minisuperspace geometries as non-Lorentzian. The results indicate that semiclassical saddle point approximation is not always valid in truly Lorentzian quantum cosmology. As a consequence, related works on the tunnelling and no-boundary proposals, bouncing cosmology, and the quantum origin of inflation etc. need to be reexamined.

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