TY - JOUR
T1 - Quantum cosmology of classically constrained gravity
AU - Gabadadze, Gregory
AU - Shang, Yanwen
N1 - Funding Information:
We would like to thank Andrei Linde and Alexander Vilenkin for valuable communications. The work was supported in part by NASA grant NNG05GH34G, and in part by NSF grant PHY-0403005. Y.S. is also supported by graduate student funds provided by New York University. Y.S. would like to thank Andrei Gruzinov for his support through David and Lucile Packard Foundation Fellowship.
PY - 2006/4/20
Y1 - 2006/4/20
N2 - In [G. Gabadadze, Y. Shang, hep-th/0506040] we discussed a classically constrained model of gravity. This theory contains known solutions of General Relativity (GR), and admits solutions that are absent in GR. Here we study cosmological implications of some of these new solutions. We show that a spatially-flat de Sitter universe can be created from "nothing". This universe has boundaries, and its total energy equals to zero. Although the probability to create such a universe is exponentially suppressed, it favors initial conditions suitable for inflation. Then we discuss a finite-energy solution with a nonzero cosmological constant and zero space-time curvature. There is no tunneling suppression to fluctuate into this state. We show that for a positive cosmological constant this state is unstable-it can rapidly transition to a de Sitter universe providing a new unsuppressed channel for inflation. For a negative cosmological constant the space-time flat solutions is stable.
AB - In [G. Gabadadze, Y. Shang, hep-th/0506040] we discussed a classically constrained model of gravity. This theory contains known solutions of General Relativity (GR), and admits solutions that are absent in GR. Here we study cosmological implications of some of these new solutions. We show that a spatially-flat de Sitter universe can be created from "nothing". This universe has boundaries, and its total energy equals to zero. Although the probability to create such a universe is exponentially suppressed, it favors initial conditions suitable for inflation. Then we discuss a finite-energy solution with a nonzero cosmological constant and zero space-time curvature. There is no tunneling suppression to fluctuate into this state. We show that for a positive cosmological constant this state is unstable-it can rapidly transition to a de Sitter universe providing a new unsuppressed channel for inflation. For a negative cosmological constant the space-time flat solutions is stable.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.physletb.2006.03.002
DO - 10.1016/j.physletb.2006.03.002
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:33645875600
SN - 0370-2693
VL - 635
SP - 235
EP - 242
JO - Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics
JF - Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics
IS - 5-6
ER -