TY - JOUR
T1 - Probability of boundary conditions in quantum cosmology
AU - Nambu, Yasusada
AU - Suenobu, Hiroshi
N1 - Funding Information:
YN was supported in part by JSPS KAKENHI Grant Number 15K05073 and 16H01094.
Publisher Copyright:
© Published under licence by IOP Publishing Ltd.
PY - 2017/8/21
Y1 - 2017/8/21
N2 - One of the main interest in quantum cosmology is to determine boundary conditions for the wave function of the universe which can predict observational data of our universe. For this purpose, we solve the Wheeler-DeWitt equation for a closed universe with a scalar field numerically and evaluate probabilities for boundary conditions of the wave function of the universe. To impose boundary conditions of the wave function, we use exact solutions of the Wheeler-DeWitt equation with a constant scalar field potential. We specify the exact solutions by introducing two real parameters to discriminate boundary conditions, and obtain the probability for these parameters under the requirement of sufficient e-foldings of the inflation. The probability distribution of boundary conditions prefers the tunneling boundary condition to the no-boundary boundary condition. Furthermore, for large values of a model parameter related to the inflaton mass and the cosmological constant, the probability of boundary conditions selects an unique boundary condition different from the tunneling type.
AB - One of the main interest in quantum cosmology is to determine boundary conditions for the wave function of the universe which can predict observational data of our universe. For this purpose, we solve the Wheeler-DeWitt equation for a closed universe with a scalar field numerically and evaluate probabilities for boundary conditions of the wave function of the universe. To impose boundary conditions of the wave function, we use exact solutions of the Wheeler-DeWitt equation with a constant scalar field potential. We specify the exact solutions by introducing two real parameters to discriminate boundary conditions, and obtain the probability for these parameters under the requirement of sufficient e-foldings of the inflation. The probability distribution of boundary conditions prefers the tunneling boundary condition to the no-boundary boundary condition. Furthermore, for large values of a model parameter related to the inflaton mass and the cosmological constant, the probability of boundary conditions selects an unique boundary condition different from the tunneling type.
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U2 - 10.1088/1742-6596/880/1/012025
DO - 10.1088/1742-6596/880/1/012025
M3 - Conference article
AN - SCOPUS:85028760197
SN - 1742-6588
VL - 880
JO - Journal of Physics: Conference Series
JF - Journal of Physics: Conference Series
IS - 1
M1 - 012025
T2 - 8th International Workshop on Decoherence, Information, Complexity and Entropy, DICE 2016
Y2 - 12 September 2016 through 16 September 2016
ER -