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Title:
Harmonic cosmology: how much can we know about a universe before the big bang?
Authors:
Bojowald, Martin
Publication:
Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, vol. 464, issue 2096, pp. 2135-2150
Publication Date:
08/2008
Origin:
CROSSREF
DOI:
10.1098/rspa.2008.0050
Bibliographic Code:
2008RSPSA.464.2135B

Abstract

Quantum gravity may remove classical space-time singularities and thus reveal what a universe at and before the big bang could be like. In loop quantum cosmology, an exactly solvable model is available which allows one to address precise dynamical coherent states and their evolution in such a setting. It is shown here that quantum fluctuations before the big bang are generically unrelated to those after the big bang. A reliable determination of pre-big bang quantum fluctuations would require exceedingly precise observations.
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