Planck scale inflationary spectra from quantum gravity

Gian Luigi Alberghi, Roberto Casadio, and Alessandro Tronconi
Phys. Rev. D 74, 103501 – Published 1 November 2006

Abstract

We derive the semiclassical evolution of massless minimally coupled scalar matter in the de Sitter space-time from the Born-Oppenheimer reduction of the Wheeler-DeWitt equation. We show that the dynamics of trans-Planckian modes can be cast in the form of an effective modified dispersion relation and that high energy corrections in the power spectrum of the cosmic microwave background radiation produced during inflation remain very small if the initial state is the Bunch-Davies vacuum.

  • Received 19 June 2006

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.74.103501

©2006 American Physical Society

Authors & Affiliations

Gian Luigi Alberghi1,2,*, Roberto Casadio1,†, and Alessandro Tronconi1,‡

  • 1Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Bologna, and I.N.F.N., Sezione di Bologna, via Irnerio 46, 40126 Bologna, Italy
  • 2Department of Astronomy, University of Bologna, via Ranzani 1, 40127 Bologna, Italy

  • *Electronic address: alberghi@bo.infn.it
  • Electronic address: casadio@bo.infn.it
  • Electronic address: tronconi@bo.infn.it

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Vol. 74, Iss. 10 — 15 November 2006

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