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QUANTUM COSMOLOGIES AND THE “BEGINNING”
Zygon, 1991 . The cosmology proposed by Stephen Hawking has been understood as support for an atheistic stance, due mainly to its view of the nature of time in combination with the absence of explicit boundary conditions.
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Universe, 2023 Quantum cosmology aims to develop a quantum theory of the universe, attempting to answer open questions of physical cosmology, mainly related to the early epochs of the universe. Such a theory aims to unite relativity theory and quantum theory. Here, the
Shreya Banerjee
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The Quantum Cosmological Constant [PDF]
Symmetry, 2019 We present an extension of general relativity in which the cosmological constant becomes dynamical and turns out to be conjugate to the Chern–Simons invariant of the Ashtekar connection on a spatial slicing. The latter has been proposed Soo and Smolin as a time variable for quantum gravity: the Chern–Simons time.
Stephon Alexander +2 more
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DECOHERENCE IN QUANTUM COSMOLOGY AND THE COSMOLOGICAL CONSTANT [PDF]
Modern Physics Letters A, 2013 We discuss a spacetime having the topology of S3×ℝ but with a different smoothness structure. The initial state of the cosmos in our model is identified with a wildly embedded 3-sphere (or a fractal space). In previous work we showed that a wild embedding is obtained by a quantization of a usual (or tame) embedding.
Asselmeyer-Maluga, T., Krol, J.
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Cosmic Tangle: Loop Quantum Cosmology and CMB Anomalies
Universe, 2021 Loop quantum cosmology is a conflicted field in which exuberant claims of observability coexist with serious objections against the conceptual and physical viability of its current formulations.
Martin Bojowald
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Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences, 2021 In this review, we investigate the question of backreaction in different approaches to cosmological perturbation theory, and with a special focus on quantum theoretical aspects. By backreaction we refer here to the effects of matter field or cosmological
S. Schander, S. Schander, T. Thiemann
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Lorentzian quantum cosmology [PDF]
Physical Review D, 2017 We argue that the Lorentzian path integral is a better starting point for quantum cosmology than the Euclidean version. In particular, we revisit the mini-superspace calculation of the Feynman path integral for quantum gravity with a positive cosmological constant. Instead of rotating to Euclidean time, we deform the contour of integration over metrics
Feldbrugge, Job +2 more
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Modular quantum cosmology [PDF]
Classical and Quantum Gravity, 1999 Latex, 23 pages, 1 figure.
Bertolami, Orfeu, Schiappa, Ricardo
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