6 October 2022 to 30 June 2023
NCBJ
Europe/Warsaw timezone

Can a quantum mixmaster universe undergo a spontaneous inflationary phase?

20 Apr 2023, 09:15
1h
Room 207 (NCBJ)

Room 207

NCBJ

Pasteura 7

Speaker

Jaime de Cabo Martin (NCBJ)

Description

We study asemi-classical model of the mixmaster universe. We first derive the quantum model and then introduce its semi-classical approximation. We employ a general integral quantization method that respects the symmetries of the model given by the affine and the Weyl-Heisenberg groups, and can produce a wide class of quantum models. The semi-classical approximation is based on the coherent states. The semi-classical dynamics is complex and can not be solved by analytical methods. We focus on a key qualitative feature of the dynamics, namely, we investigate whether the primordial anisotropic universe can undergo a spontaneous inflationary phase driven by the anisotropic energy combined with semi-classical corrections. The answer to this question provides a useful perspective on the inflationary paradigm as well as on alternative bouncing models.

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