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Quantum complete prelude to inflation

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It is shown that the inflationary paradigm admits quantum complete extensions of spacetime. The extended inflationary spacetimes still have geodesic borders, but quantum fields are prohibited from migrating across these… Click to show full abstract

It is shown that the inflationary paradigm admits quantum complete extensions of spacetime. The extended inflationary spacetimes still have geodesic borders, but quantum fields are prohibited from migrating across these borders by their evolution semigroups. The geodesic singularities lurking across the borders lack a physical description because the evolution semigroups give vanishing probabilistic support to quantum fields for populating regions bordering on these singularities. As an example, anisotropic Bianchi type-I cosmologies are shown to be quantum complete preludes to inflation. They admit Kasner-like geometries close to their geodesic borders. Quantum fields enjoy a contractive evolution in these asymptotic regions and ultimately become free. As a consequence, quantum probes cannot migrate across the geodesic border of Bianchi type-I cosmologies.

Keywords: complete prelude; inflation; quantum complete; quantum fields; prelude inflation

Journal Title: Physical Review D
Year Published: 2019

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